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Speaking with: Cameron McAuliffe on NIMBYs, urban planning and making community consultation work.
Dallas Rogers speaks with Western Sydney University's Cameron McAuliffe about leveraging conflict and informal processes in the urban planning process.
Co-ownership of real estate through digital platforms can be a risky and potentially costly business.
New Zealand's coalition government plans to transition to a low-emissions economy while also addressing major urban issues such as unaffordable housing, inequality and poverty.
If local government is to deliver affordable housing, state and federal governments must assist. Even councils as powerful and well resourced as the City of Sydney cannot do it by themselves.
A new report shows building smaller houses as opposed to apartments in city fringes could provide more affordable housing.
Artificial islands that are now mushrooming across the ocean are regarded as 'engineering marvels'. But, little attention is paid to how these human-made structures affect sea life.
The construction sector works on a bit of a time lag. So there are a bunch of projects underway that were premised on the loose credit of recent years.
The clichés about housing supply and regulatory restraints are distractions from the need to focus on expanding the affordable housing sector to directly meet the needs of low-income households.
Statements from the RBA show it's little wonder markets are not predicting a rate increase this year.
Zoning restrictions added A$489,000 to the price of a detached house in Sydney, A$324,000 in Melbourne, A$159,000 in Brisbane, and A$206,000 in Perth.
Millions of older Australians live in houses that don't safely meet their needs, but they're not ready for a nursing home. Lack of suitable housing and the moving costs leave them with nowhere to go.
Theresa May blames councils and developers for the housing crisis – but it's a lack of leadership that's the problem.
Increasingly insecure pathways to home ownership are not just a problem for property markets. The fallout is likely to hit retirement incomes, the welfare base, gender equity and the broader economy.
Australian governments are faced with a choice: make the difficult decisions to fix planning systems so more houses can be built, or tap the brakes on Australia's migrant intake.
This is how the working-class traders of Chrisp Street Market stood up to property developers – and won.
By the end of this century the world's population will have increased by half, creating a housing problem that needs to be solved now.
While new buildings may be the glamorous eco-home pinups, retrofitting existing homes is the main game when it comes to creating energy-efficient, comfortable housing stock for all Australians.
Decent housing underpins the Closing the Gap goals, with a decade-long national remote housing program having made measurable progress. If the Commonwealth pulls out now, hard-won gains could be lost.
A new report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies shows home ownership rates have collapsed: today, just one in four middle-income millennials will own their own home.
Top contributors
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Professor of Economics, School of Economics and Finance, Curtin University
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Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Sydney
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Dallas Rogers is a Friend of The Conversation.
Program Director, Master of Urbanism. School of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney
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Director, Henry Halloran Trust, University of Sydney
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Emeritus Professor of Housing and Housing Studies, RMIT University
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Associate Director - City Futures - Urban Policy and Strategy, City Futures Research Centre, Housing Policy and Practice, UNSW
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John Daley is a Friend of The Conversation.
Chief Executive Officer, Grattan Institute
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Professor of Housing Economics and Director, UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence, University of Glasgow
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Director, Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute, Curtin Research Centre, Curtin University
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Research Fellow, City Housing, UNSW
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Research Fellow, RMIT University
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Research Professor, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor, Curtin Law School, Curtin University
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Lecturer in Finance, University of Sydney
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Fellow, Grattan Institute
