The proportion of housing that’s unoccupied has actually fallen since the last census, but the key issue is most of these dwellings are not in the areas where the need for housing is greatest.
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Socialisation of housing would see profits from rent put back into the maintenance and modernisation of the buildings.
About 10% of empty dwellings on census night – 1.2% of all housing – were available for rental and vacancy rates have changed little in 35 years. Could governments be overreacting?
A tax on empty homes will make a modest difference to housing affordability. The sheer wastefulness of our housing system calls for something much more ambitious.
Home teardowns are often unnecessary and costly, in more ways than one.
London is about to experience a residential building boom the like of which the capital hasn’t experienced in decades. According to a report from New London Architecture there are more than 230 new high-rise…
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Professor of Urban Planning, The University of Melbourne
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Executive Dean, UniSA Business, University of South Australia
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Professor of Social Policy, University of Salford
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Professor of Housing Research and Policy, and Associate Director, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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Andrew W. Mellon Chair in the Humanities and Professor and Chair of History of Art, Vanderbilt University
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Professor of Housing Research, University of Adelaide
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Research Fellow in Urban Studies, University of Cambridge
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Geospatial Data Scientist, Deakin University
