There is a risk that affordable housing policy may be colonised by for-profit interests if Australia imports the wrong rental housing ideas from overseas.
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City living costs are driving people to organise themselves to share a room with strangers. These precarious living arrangements hardly qualify as a home.
About 10% of empty dwellings on census night – 1.2% of all housing – were available for rental and vacancy rates have changed little in 35 years. Could governments be overreacting?
One in seven Australian households is in a state of housing need. A shortfall in social housing supply means some are locked out of the market and others pay much more for rent than they can afford.
New research reveals outdated concepts and thinking are shaping Australia’s troubled housing system.
Private renters’ security of tenure in Australia has less legal protection than in other countries with high private rental rates. A new study reveals mixed responses to this state of uncertainty.
Almost nowhere in our capital cities can low-income households – and those on average incomes in Sydney – afford the median rent. Mapping rental vulnerability finds it in regional areas too.
Only a small proportion of housing is affordable for low-income earners, while people on Newstart or Youth Allowance don’t have any affordable options at all.
For renting to become a truly viable, long-term alternative to home ownership, greater rental affordability and security is needed.
Scott Morrison will renew his warnings against tampering with negative gearing, in a speech on Monday.
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.
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.
Renters worry that asking their landlords for better insulated homes could cause a rent hike.
The need for new housing solutions for these low-income groups is clearly a pressing requirement.
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Senior Research Fellow, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Sydney
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ARC Future Fellow & Professor of Economics, Curtin University
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Emeritus Professor, University of Sydney
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Professor of Housing Research and Policy, and Associate Director, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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Adjunct associate, Swinburne University of Technology
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Research Associate, Centre for Urban Transitions, Swinburne University of Technology
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Alan Morris is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor, Institute for Public Policy and Governance, University of Technology Sydney
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Research Associate, Centre for People, Organisation and Work, RMIT University
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Research Fellow, Department of Behavioural and Social Sciences, University of Huddersfield
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Senior Lecturer in Urbanism, University of Sydney
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Professor of Housing & Social Policy, Centre for Urban Transitions, Swinburne University of Technology
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Research Professor, Centre for Urban Transitions, Swinburne University of Technology
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Associate Professor, Geography and Urban Studies, Western Sydney University
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Postdoctoral fellow - Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
