By Edgar Liu and Ryan van den Nouwelant. Originally published at The Conversation. A recent application for an eight-room boarding house in the leafy north Sydney suburb of Cromer attracted over 800 objections from residents and the school community. Proponents of the project, including governments, may be tempted to dismiss these residents as NIMBYs […]
Entries Tagged as 'Housing'
Don’t fear boarding houses: they’re probably not what you think
October 26th, 2015 · No Comments · Housing, Housing supply
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Inquiry into affordable housing industry capacity
July 29th, 2015 · No Comments · Affordability, Housing
City Futures is partnering with RMIT, Swinburne, UQ and UTas to conduct an Inquiry into Affordable Housing Industry Capacity for AHURI. We’re looking at Australia’s small but growing affordable housing industry – including community housing providers, their funders and other partners – and investigating the capacity of this industry to restructure the social housing system to better deliver housing for low-moderate income […]
What’s the problem with foreign ownership of Australian real estate?
July 16th, 2015 · No Comments · Affordability, Housing
When housing experts at City Futures and other Sydney unis put forward recently a national 10-point plan for housing affordability, there was a lot of interest and commentary… and a lot of the commentary was about foreigners buying Australian housing. Do we need an 11-point plan – or, as some commentators seem to suggest, a one-point plan […]
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Renewing the Compact City
June 29th, 2015 · No Comments · Housing, Strata
Please upgrade your browser Map of strata registrations contains information provided under licence from Land and Property Information (a Division of the Department of Finance, Services and Innovation) Just over 50 years ago a new type of property ownership was introduced in Australia. In 1961 the Conveyancing (Strata Titles) Act was introduced in NSW. This […]
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A Fresh Lens on Housing Unaffordability – Fixing the Problem
June 18th, 2015 · No Comments · Affordability, Housing
‘A Fresh Lens on Housing’ – Paper presented at the Urban Conversations event 10 May 2015 hosted by the Australian Graduate School of Urbanism at UNSW Built Environment, Cox Richardson Architects and Planners and the NSW Architects Registration Board. By: Prof Bill Randolph, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Built Environment Part 2 – Housing Unaffordability […]
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Abbott, Hockey and housing
June 15th, 2015 · 2 Comments · Affordability, Housing
On behalf of everyone concerned about housing affordability, thanks to Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Treasurer Joe Hockey for putting the issue on the front pages of the media for the past two weeks. In case you missed it, the discussion got started when three of Australia’s highest-ranking financial regulators – from ASIC, the Reserve […]
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Senate report on affordable housing: landmark or lost opportunity?
May 28th, 2015 · 3 Comments · Affordability, Housing
A few weeks ago the Senate Economic References Committee released its long-awaited report on affordable housing in Australia. Senator Xenophon, a member of the committee, has described the report as a ‘landmark’ and he’s right, almost literally: the report is monumental (over 460 pages of evidence and analysis, from an 18-month inquiry that took 231 […]
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