By Vivienne Milligan, City Futures Research Centre. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. This month, yet another policy agreement on housing between the Commonwealth and state and territory governments came into effect. The National Housing and Homelessness Agreement is the latest version of a 73-year-long series of such intergovernmental […]
Entries Tagged as 'Government'
The new national housing agreement won’t achieve its goals without enough funding
July 17th, 2018 · No Comments · Affordability, Finance, Government, Housing, Housing supply
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Can the market provide affordable housing?
July 9th, 2018 · No Comments · Affordability, Government, Housing, Housing supply, Marginal rental, Private rental, Sydney
A new-generation boarding house in Randwick built under AHSEPP, with units that were advertised for $500 a week. By Laurence Troy, Ryan van den Nouwelant and Bill Randolph, City Futures Research Centre. Originally published by The Fifth Estate. There is an ongoing debate about the best role for the planning system in addressing the shortage […]
Inclusionary Zoning in Ontario
June 25th, 2018 · No Comments · Construction, Government, Guest appearance, Housing, Housing supply, International
By Richard Drdla, Richard Drdla Associates, Toronto, Canada. Earlier this year Richard, an expert on planning for affordable housing in North America, wrote us a guest blog post about the Greater Sydney Commission’s affordable rental housing targets. This post discusses the latest developments regarding inclusionary zoning in Ontario, Canada. Richard is a guest speaker at the […]
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Last year’s affordable housing green shoots have withered
May 22nd, 2018 · No Comments · Affordability, Economy, Finance, Government, Housing
By Chris Martin and Hal Pawson. This article was originally published on John Menadue’s Pearls and Irritations. Budget 2018 fails the 1.5 million Australian households living in unaffordable rental housing or officially homeless, despite the urgent need for Commonwealth leadership on affordable housing policy. On Budget night 2017 Treasurer Morrison announced a ‘comprehensive plan to […]
Homelessness: Australia’s shameful story of policy complacency and failure continues
May 15th, 2018 · No Comments · Affordability, Cities, Data, Government, Guest appearance, Housing, Sydney
By Hal Pawson, UNSW and Cameron Parsell, The University of Queensland. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Exactly a decade ago in 2008, the Australian government committed to an ambitious strategy to halve national homelessness by 2020. Through stepped-up early intervention, better homelessness services and an expanded supply of affordable housing, […]
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NSW is overselling its social housing commitment
May 8th, 2018 · No Comments · Construction, Government, Housing, Housing supply, Sydney
Photo: Zachary staines By Hal Pawson, City Futures Research Centre. Originally published on The Fifth Estate. According to figures published this week the NSW government has over the past few years managed to build more public housing units than it has sold to raise revenue. As revealed by the figures, the NSW Land and Housing Corporation (LAHC) […]
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Grappling with housing disruption: how should planners respond to Airbnb?
May 1st, 2018 · No Comments · Affordability, Cities, Data, Economy, Government, Housing, Sydney
By Laura Crommelin. This article originally appeared in New Planner – the journal of the New South Wales planning profession – published by the Planning Institute of Australia. The explosive growth of digital short-term letting platform Airbnb poses plenty of challenges for planners, with the impact being felt across both urban and regional areas. But what exactly is the […]
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How does a city get to be ‘smart’? This is how Tel Aviv did it
April 20th, 2018 · No Comments · Data, Government, Guest appearance, Smart cities
Image: Alexandra Lande/Shutterstock By Christine Steinmetz, Senior Lecturer in Built Environment, UNSW. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Smart cities, digital cities, virtual cities, connected cities. Are these just trendy buzzwords? Perhaps. But these types of cities are supported by infrastructure that is more than bricks and mortar. These cities […]
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Sydney needs more boarding houses
April 9th, 2018 · No Comments · Construction, Government, Guest appearance, Housing, Housing conditions, Housing supply, Marginal rental, Private rental, Sydney
By Matthew Benson, UNSW Built Environment Masters candidate and town planning consultant. Originally published in the Sydney Morning Herald. I was a town planner at the former City of South Sydney in the mid-nineties when brothels became legal. Brothel operators could apply to legalise brothels that had been operating for decades. I remember someone objecting […]
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Wealthy landlords and more sharehousing: how the rental sector is changing
April 5th, 2018 · No Comments · Demographics, Finance, Government, Housing, Housing conditions, Marginal rental, Private rental, Tenancy, Uncategorized
By Chris Martin. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. More people are becoming heavily indebted by buying rental properties and shared accommodation is flourishing, as third party tech platforms help people find a place without a real estate agent. A new report from the Australian Housing and Urban Research […]
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