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There is a long history of the UK government failing to adequately provide for Gypsy and Traveller communities’ needs.
Australia’s rental crisis has been a long-standing problem and will not be repaired unless there is real reform of both supply and demand issues.
Urban policy needs to look beyond housing development and address the land ownership patterns that underpin our cities.
What are ‘squatters’ rights’ and do they apply in Australia? They do, but using them will likely prove difficult.
Amid a housing affordability crisis, new research suggests the federal government should allocate resources to the housing needs of children being raised by single mothers.
For the Commonwealth, the best measure is rent assistance. For the states, it’s a mix of two-thirds first homebuyer grants and one-third stamp duty discounts.
To truly make UK housing safe and healthful for residents, the government needs a comprehensive strategy.
New estimates suggest that if just one state, New South Wales, scrapped its stamp duty, an extra 100,000 Australians would move homes each year.
A new report on sustainable and affordable housing falls short by failing to fully consider land-and-housing market dynamics.
Co-operatives make up only a small part of Australia’s accommodation stock but their users say the benefits warrant it being considered as a way of easing the housing crisis.
Helping adult children buy homes is risky, especially because what begins as a loan can turn into an unintended gift.
Australia builds only 45,000 new homes per quarter. If we really want to fix the rent crisis we’ll have to build more.
Neither investors nor super funds are prepared to wear the losses needed to put low-income Australians into housing. The government should double the size of its Housing Australia Future Fund.
Despite different theories, there is no simple answer to whether prospective home buyers are better off buying before or after the expected interest rate drop in the next year.
Negative gearing is popular because it lowers home owners’ tax bills. But its critics say it has reduced affordable housing stock keeping the less well off out of the market.
Even changing the tax system won’t end steadily-climbing property prices. They are the result of urbanisation, and while COVID has eased some of the pressures, it has added some more.
There are many strategies needed simultaneously to address housing affordability in Canada. The expansion of social housing supply is a particularly effective one.
Encampment sweeps in Edmonton are a brutal attack on both human and treaty rights, as well as a continuation of the violent removal of Indigenous Peoples from their land.
Most research on unaffordable housing has focused on homeownership, but rental affordability is also a serious issue.
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Associate Profesor, School of Planning, University of Waterloo
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Professor of Housing Research and Policy, and Associate Director, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor, Sociology cross-listed in Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Western University
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Assistant Professor in the Department of Equity Studies, York University, Canada
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PhD Student, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto
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Emeritus Professor, University of Sydney
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Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Sydney
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Housing Policy Researcher, Expert Advisor, Housing Assessment Resource Tools and Adjunct Professor, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning, School of Architecture and Cities, University of Westminster
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Associate Professor, Geography and Urban Studies, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Sociology and Director of the Housing and Community Research Unit, University of Tasmania
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PhD Candidate, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Professor in the School of Planning, Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo
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Professor of Housing Research, University of Adelaide
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Part-Time Professor of Economics, The New School
