Australia builds only 45,000 new homes per quarter. If we really want to fix the rent crisis we’ll have to build more.
Academic rigor, journalistic flair
Articles on Rental costs
Displaying all articles
There are many strategies needed simultaneously to address housing affordability in Canada. The expansion of social housing supply is a particularly effective one.
Most research on unaffordable housing has focused on homeownership, but rental affordability is also a serious issue.
Here are 12 questions worth considering before you sign a residential tenancy agreement.
The Greens and housing support groups want rent rises frozen but this might actually reduce the availability of suitable housing stock.
Canadian universities host thousands of international students, many of whom come from India. While all these students need housing, many face discrimination in the rental market.
Young adults are among the groups most adversely affected by the housing crisis. Foreign-born young adults, in particular, are disproportionately more likely to live in unaffordable housing.
Although many say the economic outlook for next year appears bleak, there is room for optimism.
As property values skyrocket, long-term renters — many of whom are elderly — face the very real risk of homelessness.
A federal eviction ban had much less effect than state-specific restrictions, an analysis of eviction data finds.
Current measures prohibiting the eviction of tenants and helping them through the financial crisis won’t last forever. A 40-year-old voucher program might be a longer term solution.
Living in shared rooms is on the rise, because it’s more affordable – and more profitable for landlords. But it’s also a more precarious, often overcrowded and poorly regulated form of housing.
Proposed changes to NSW rental tenancy law are an improvement, but do not end the excessive rent increases and “no grounds” evictions that put renters – and older women in particular – at risk.
Cheap flights and irresponsible tourists are causing many holiday destinations to become overrun with visitors.
Top contributors
-
Associate Professor, Deakin Business School, Deakin University
-
Associate Professor, Geography and Urban Studies, Western Sydney University
-
Postdoc Housing Researcher, the University of Sydney, Macquarie University
-
Professor of Urban Policy, The New School
-
Senior Lecturer in Tourism and International Development, Leeds Beckett University
-
PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, University of Guelph
-
Assistant Professor in the Department of Equity Studies, York University, Canada
-
Professor of Finance and Business Economics, University of Southern California
-
Professor of Urban Planning, University of Kansas
-
Associate Professor, Sociology cross-listed in Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Western University
-
Professor in Urban Geography, Macquarie University
-
Research Associate, Idaho Policy Institute, Boise State University
-
Research Associate, Idaho Policy Institute, Boise State University
-
Associate Professor of Finance, Mississippi State University
-
PhD Student, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto
