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 […]
Entries Tagged as 'Housing'
Affordable housing policy failure still being fuelled by flawed analysis
March 15th, 2018 · No Comments · Affordability, Construction, Government, Guest appearance, Housing, Housing supply
What Australia can learn from overseas about the future of rental housing
January 24th, 2018 · No Comments · Demographics, Finance, Government, Housing, Housing conditions, International, Law, Private rental, Tenancy
Image: AAP/David Crosling By Chris Martin. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. When we talk about rental housing in Australia, we often make comparisons with renting overseas. Faced with insecure tenancies and unaffordable home ownership, we sometimes try to envisage European-style tenancies being imported here. And, over the past year, […]
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‘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 […]
Visioning varieties of “mixed tenure” development
December 1st, 2017 · No Comments · Construction, Housing, Strata, urban renewal
By Ryan van den Nouwelant and Hal Pawson, City Futures Research Centre. Originally published on The Fifth Estate. Mixed tenure – that is, mixing subsidised housing (social or affordable rental) with market housing – is an increasingly common feature of urban redevelopment. How best to do it, though, depends on what you are trying to […]
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
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 […]
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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Room sharing is the new flat sharing
October 13th, 2017 · No Comments · Affordability, Cities, Guest appearance, Housing, Housing conditions, Marginal rental, Public space, Sydney, Wellbeing
“Looking for one girl to share a master room with another 3 girls.” Screenshot from Gumtree ad, August 19 2017, 11:58 , Author provided. By Christian Tietz, UNSW. Originally published on The Conversation. Christian’s exhibition of new work – DENSA: Exploring New Urban Equipment for Denser Living – will be on display throughout the Red Centre […]
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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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