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Australia’s best-off and worst-off have improved their lots. The mortgaged middle has gone backwards.
In his budget reply on Thursday night, Dutton tapped into the electorally emotive issues of housing and immigration with the new measures he put forward.
This obsession with economic growth is destroying our planet. We must rethink private ownership of land – that’s where it all went wrong.
The government has made housing a federal policy priority after a decade of neglect. But the scale of the housing crisis means its actions to date are just a start – much more must be done.
Alan Kohler’s Quarterly Essay lays out how the policies of successive governments have not only failed to address housing problems, but actively created them.
Applying the logic of JobKeeper to create a HomeKeeper program could save a lot of working-class mortgagors from losing their homes.
Youth unemployment is on an upward trajectory.
The transfer of township rental houses to inhabitants did not necessarily give families greater security. “Family houses” were frequently acquired by individuals.
An ageing population is caught in a perfect storm of rising house prices and rents, falling home ownership rates, mortgage debt carried into retirement, insecure rentals and a lack of social housing.
A new tax-free savings account could play a role in making the dream of home ownership more attainable for first-time buyers in Canada.
Without innovation in all five building phases, the industry won’t have the capacity to meet market demands or to deliver the social and affordable housing the government is promising.
Though accessory dwelling units have been around for centuries, a recent survey found that 71% of Americans were unfamiliar with the concept.
An expert on what the post-homeownership world looks like.
Ethiopia’s mass housing project has built and transferred half-a-million houses in two decades – but it’s damaging the social fabric of communities.
There are no ‘silver bullet’ solutions to a crisis that has left both renters and owners struggling. Only a comprehensive package of bold policies can ensure all Australians are securely housed.
Brisbane rents are up nearly 50% more than the national average and homelessness in Queensland is increasing at the fastest rate in the country. The state can take several steps to turn things around.
Michelle Grattan and Mike Callaghan discuss the government's change to super, the complexities regarding it, and whether young people should be able to access it for a house deposit
The number of homes with serious hazards has been nearly halved, but improvements have slowed and may be in reverse.
The gap in housing wealth between older and younger Australians has widened from 161% to 234% – making it almost half as big again.
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ARC Future Fellow & Professor of Economics, Curtin University
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Emeritus Professor of Housing and Housing Studies, RMIT University
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Associate Professor and Discipline Lead Property, Curtin University
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Research Fellow, RMIT University
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Honorary Professor of Geography, University of Cambridge
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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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Associate Professor, Geography and Urban Studies, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Housing & Social Policy, Centre for Urban Transitions, Swinburne University of Technology
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Urban Transitions, Swinburne University of Technology
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Associate Professor, Human Resources, Thompson Rivers University
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Senior Research Fellow, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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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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Program Director, Economic Policy, Grattan Institute
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Associate Professor in Urban Geography, The University of Melbourne
