Any attempt to improve security for tenants should not deprive them, or their landlords, of the flexibility that many also want. The key problem is landlords’ ability to give notice without a reason.
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Renting makes financial sense in a number of circumstances; it’s time to move away from the obsession with home ownership.
The effects of unaffordable housing cascade into other areas of life, in particular, affecting mental health.
By focusing on intergenerational inequalities that will eventually be reversed, we are framing the housing affordability question the wrong way.
Improving energy efficiency is not an option for a significant number of people in Australia – renters.
People who engage in rent-to-buy schemes might not be protected under law and are often left in unaffordable situations.
A decent national housing policy is not just about the million or so Australians who are in housing need, marginal housing or homeless. In reality, all the housing sectors are connected.
The results of changing negative gearing are not as straight-forward as the government suggests.
The Hollywood flick recalls subprime’s role in the 2008 financial crisis, but, by helping more low-income households buy a home, the loans can help ease the affordability crisis and homelessness.
An experiment compared the experience of Anglo, Indian and Muslim Middle Eastern “renters” looking for housing. The differences in how they were treated were significant.
It is now possible to imagine Australia having a national affordable housing strategy, backed by funding, by the end of 2016.
Divorce rates are on the decline in Australia, people are marrying and having children later in life, and more of us live alone. Our experts respond to the new report on Australia’s welfare.
Financial stress is more likely to cause Australians to drop out of home ownership. Why?
Miliband’s plans to stop landlords hiking up rents won’t fix the housing supply problem.
George Osborne’s bid to boost home ownership in Britain might look like an effort to give young people a leg-up onto the housing ladder, but the evidence suggests they will be sorely disappointed.
Mayfair, Belgravia and Kensington: all London boroughs associated with affluence and grandeur, not student accommodation. But today these areas play host to a burgeoning student population. With the internationalisation…
Just 43% of Germans own their homes – one of the world’s lowest rates. This reminds us that housing tenure has little to do with economic and social policy performance. So is the UK set to continue its…
Australia is the world capital for property speculation. Australians play property like Monopoly: buying, selling, demolishing, rebuilding, extending, renovating, always with the promise of appreciation…
First home buyers are slipping in the ranks of Australians purchasing a home, and once again negative gearing and supply issues are back in the spotlight. Even Aussie Home Loans founder John Symond has…
For all our talk about housing affordability, few people want house prices to drop. That’s because most Australians are home owners, and much of our wealth is stored in housing. But recent figures released…
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Research Fellow, Department of Behavioural and Social Sciences, University of Huddersfield
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Professor of Social Epidemiology and Director of the Centre of Research Excellence in Healthy Housing at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct lecturer, Victoria University
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ARC Future Fellow & Professor of Economics, Curtin University
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Associate Professor in Urban Geography, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, Centre for Social Research and Methods, Director, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), Australian National University
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Research Professor, Centre for Urban Transitions, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor of Law, Discipline of Law, Justice and Society, University of South Australia
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Professor of Housing Research and Policy, and Associate Director, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Research Fellow, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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Honorary Senior Fellow in Urban Geography and Planning, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer, Australian Centre for Housing Research, University of Adelaide, and Research Associate, ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change, University of Essex
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Emeritus Professor of Housing and Housing Studies, RMIT University
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Associate Professor, Geography and Urban Studies, Western Sydney University
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Assistant Professor, Hill and Levene Schools of Business, University of Regina
