Weak state policies, which lack clear targets and mechanisms for providing more and better affordable housing, are part of the problem. Victoria still doesn’t have an affordable housing strategy.
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Generation Rent may force a complete rethinking of home ownership as a basis of our housing systems. Rather than representing security, these housing markets make us vulnerable.
Housing affordability is often not the only problem households face. More often the compounding effects of multiple problems leave people unable to cope, which is why one solution won’t work for all.
To tout new housing production as the only solution to rising house prices, without examining the question of demand, is an ineffective policy position.
Scott Morrison has been exploring a UK model for channelling investment via a specialist financial intermediary into new affordable housing provided by landlords with a social purpose. It makes sense.
A combination of transit-oriented centres, inclusionary zoning and a special rate on land instead of stamp duty could make housing more affordable by cutting congestion, development and travel costs.
The affordability crisis in regional Australia has a long history. In some places the problem is even worse for residents than in the capital cities.
Dallas Rogers speaks with Nicole Cook about how union 'green bans' in the 1970s stopped the redevelopment of working-class suburbs in Sydney.
Brexit and Trump pave the way for more financial market uncertainty.
Many children are living in low-income families that struggle to pay the rent to keep a roof over their heads. Unaffordable housing is fuelling childhood poverty, so where is the policy response?
Beyond debates about the avocado smash generation lies some misnomers on which generation had it better.
For the increasing proportion of people living in private rental accommodation who can expect to be dependent on the age pension, the prospects of financial and housing insecurity are grim.
US GDP data points to a US rate rise in December, and Australia’s housing affordability problem won’t be helped by current declining building approvals.
The government says its changes to foreign investment will increase housing supply and make it more affordable, but that’s relying on narrow and possibly incorrect assumptions about investors.
The community needs affordable housing and that requires meaningful targets for new developments. The only ones who will lose out are landholders who make windfall profits from rezoning.
While some forms of co-living seek to match modern lifestyles and a desire to downsize, other profit-driven models simply exploit a lack of affordable housing alternatives.
Treasurer Scott Morrison this week reignited the discussion about housing affordability in Australia. The question is: will the government be willing to bring forward meaningful reform?
Scott Morrison is a “once bitten, never shy” sort of guy. The Treasurer this week launched into the hot topic of housing affordability.
The government will push states to remove unnecessary residential land use planning regulations that are impeding the supply of housing, Treasurer Scott Morrison will say in a major speech.
By focusing on intergenerational inequalities that will eventually be reversed, we are framing the housing affordability question the wrong way.
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Professor of Housing Research and Policy, and Associate Director, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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Emeritus Professor, University of Sydney
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ARC Future Fellow & Professor of Economics, Curtin University
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Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Sydney
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Head of Urbanism and Associate Professor of Urban Studies, School of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney
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Program Director, Economic Policy, Grattan Institute
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Professor; School of Economics, Finance and Property, and Director, Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute, Curtin Research Centre, Curtin University
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Professor of Economics, UNSW Sydney
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Professor, City Futures Research Centre, Faculty of the Built Environment, UNSW Sydney
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professiorial Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Honorary Professor – Housing Policy and Practice, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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Emeritus Professor of Housing and Housing Studies, RMIT University
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Research Fellow, Cities Research Institute, Griffith University
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Housing Policy Researcher, Expert Advisor, Housing Assessment Resource Tools and Adjunct Professor, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
