By Hal Pawson, UNSW. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. As everyone supposedly knows, fixing housing unaffordability is simply a matter of boosting housing supply. But wait! With their just-published report on house-building and population growth, ANU academics Ben Phillips and Cukkoo Joseph have blown yet another hole in that […]
Entries Tagged as 'Housing supply'
Facts sink glib housing supply mantra – the focus must be on affordable rental
November 21st, 2017 · No Comments · Affordability, Cities, Finance, Government, Housing, Housing supply, Sydney, urban renewal
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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New report maps the route to affordable housing expansion
October 4th, 2017 · No Comments · Finance, Government, Housing supply, Uncategorized
By Hal Pawson, City Futures Research Centre. Important new steps towards expanding Australia’s affordable housing were mapped out in a hard-hitting official report, published last week. The paper, by the Affordable Housing Working Group reporting to the Council for Federal Financial Relations, draws substantially on recent City Futures Research Centre findings. Its main purpose is […]
Mounting housing stress underscores need for expert council to guide wayward policymaking
September 27th, 2017 · No Comments · Affordability, Construction, Data, Demographics, Government, Housing, Housing supply
By Hal Pawson, UNSW and Oliver Frankel, University of Technology Sydney. Originally published on The Conversation. A recent policy pledge by Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen has given fresh heart to campaigners for the restoration of the former National Housing Supply Council (NHSC). The Abbott government axed the council in 2013. With housing stress intensifying across […]
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Why investor-driven urban density is inevitably linked to disadvantage
August 23rd, 2017 · No Comments · Affordability, Cities, Construction, Housing, Housing conditions, Housing supply, Sydney, urban renewal
By Bill Randolph, UNSW This article is the third in a series based on new research into the place of lower-income and disadvantaged households in a compact city. Originally published on The Conversation. The densification of Australian cities has been heralded as a boon for housing choice and diversity. The up-beat promotion of “the swing […]
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Sydney must heed lessons of London affordable housing fiasco
July 20th, 2017 · No Comments · Government, Housing supply, Sydney, urban renewal
By Hal Pawson, Associate Director, City Futures Research Centre. A recent Sydney Morning Herald feature on urban renewal in London shone an interesting and quite revealing spotlight on a high profile project with a major Australian connection. Crucially, though this rather uncritical account completely missed the aspect of the story with the greatest direct relevance […]
Taxing empty homes: a step towards affordable housing, but much more can be done
July 17th, 2017 · No Comments · Affordability, Housing, Housing supply
Vacant and unlit ‘ghost’ apartments are a source of public outrage in major cities around the world. leniners/flickr, CC BY-NC By Hal Pawson, UNSW. Originally published on The Conversation. Vacant housing rates are rising in our major cities. Across Australia on census night, 11.2% of housing was recorded as unoccupied – a total of 1,089,165 dwellings. […]
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Two pictures of rental housing stress and vulnerability zero in on areas of need
May 18th, 2017 · No Comments · Affordability, Cities, Government, Housing, Housing supply, Regions
The Rental Vulnerability Index for Queensland shows the cumulative impact of factors affecting renters across the state. City Futures Research Centre By Chris Martin, UNSW and Laurence Troy, UNSW. Originally published on The Conversation. Two new tools for measuring and visualising problems in our rental housing system are in the media this week. They have similar […]
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Budget 2017 charts new social and affordable housing reform agenda
May 12th, 2017 · No Comments · Finance, Government, Housing, Housing supply, urban renewal
By Chris Martin, UNSW and Hal Pawson, UNSW. Originally published on The Conversation. Under pressure to tackle deepening housing affordability problems, Treasurer Scott Morrison has included various housing policy measures in his budget, some relating to Australia’s small sector of social and affordable housing. One headline-grabber is the creation of a new entity, the National Housing […]
Can Institutional Funding be Channelled into Rental Housing?
May 3rd, 2017 · No Comments · Finance, Government, Housing supply, Tenancy
By Hal Pawson, City Futures Research Centre. Originally published at John Menadue’s Pearls and Irritations. Channelling institutional finance into affordable rental housing has long been a ‘holy grail’ urban policy aspiration. Recent developments suggest that this may be edging towards reality. Scott Morrison last month re-stated the long-professed ‘holy grail’ ambition to engage institutional […]
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