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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Homelessness: Australia’s shameful story of policy complacency and failure continues
May 15th, 2018 · No Comments · Affordability, Cities, Data, Government, Guest appearance, Housing, Sydney
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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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New cities? It’s an idea worth thinking about for Australia
March 19th, 2018 · No Comments · Cities, Demographics, Guest appearance, Regions, Transport
Benjamen Gussen’s proposal for a ‘charter city’ in the Pilbara stimulated this imaginary depiction. Justin Bolleter, Author provided By Robert Freestone, UNSW; Elizabeth Taylor, RMIT University, and Julian Bolleter, University of Western Australia. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Is there a case for revisiting the idea of new cities for […]
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Affordable housing policy failure still being fuelled by flawed analysis
March 15th, 2018 · No Comments · Affordability, Construction, Government, Guest appearance, Housing, Housing supply
By Nicole Gurran, University of Sydney; Bill Randolph, UNSW; Peter Phibbs, University of Sydney; Rachel Ong, Curtin University, and Steven Rowley, Curtin University. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Australia has a housing affordability problem. There’s no doubt about that. Unfortunately, one of the reasons the problem has become so […]
‘Affordable Rental Housing Targets’ – How do the Greater Sydney Commission proposals match up to US practices?
January 22nd, 2018 · No Comments · Construction, Government, Guest appearance, Housing, Housing supply, Sydney, urban renewal
By Richard Drdla, Richard Drdla Associates, Toronto, Canada. We asked Richard, an expert on planning for affordable housing in North America, for his views on the Greater Sydney Commission’s recent policy proposals for ‘affordable rental housing targets’ . Richard compares various aspects of the GSC proposals, as set out in its October 2017 ‘Information Note’, with the corresponding ‘inclusionary zoning’ (IZ) practices […]
Government guarantee opens investment highway to affordable housing
December 5th, 2017 · No Comments · Finance, Government, Guest appearance, Housing
By Julie Lawson, Honorary Associate Professor, RMIT University; Hal Pawson, Associate Director – City Futures Research Centre, UNSW, and Vivienne Milligan, Senior Visiting Fellow – City Futures Research Centre, UNSW. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Australian governments have stepped into the market at critical times since the late 19th […]
Vanguarding Newcastle
November 23rd, 2017 · No Comments · Cities, Guest appearance, Public space, urban renewal
By Dr Ori Gudes, Research Fellow, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW, Emily Davies O’Sullivan, Willana Urban, Newcastle, and Associate Professor M. Hank Haeusler, Computational Design, UNSW. Earlier this month 50 rising urban planners and leaders from cities across the globe converged in Newcastle, NSW, for Vanguard Australia. Organised by NextCityOrg, this was the first of […]
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Living rooms for rent by the minute outsource the whole idea of home
November 15th, 2017 · No Comments · Cities, Guest appearance, Housing, Housing conditions, Marginal rental
A living room rented by the minute and another room shared for sleeping – the age of the ‘distributed’ home is upon us. By Christian Tietz, UNSW. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Zifferblatt with double f and double t is a German and Russian word for a watch […]
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Federal Government’s affordable housing reforms need a social housing investment plan
November 13th, 2017 · No Comments · Finance, Government, Guest appearance, Housing, Housing supply, Law, Money
By Julie Lawson, Honorary Associate Professor, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University. City Futures Research Centre is collaborating with Dr Lawson on the AHURI Inquiry ‘Social Housing as Infrastructure‘. The Centre for Urban Research in its submission concerning the National Housing and Finance Investment Corporation to the Federal Treasury provides evidence to support an appropriately governed […]
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