While policies such as negative gearing have helped middle to high income earners own property, they have also locked low income earners out of the market and created an unequal housing sector.
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Miliband throws renters a lifeline but the neediest still miss out on affordable housing.
Most of the best local authority homes were sold off under Thatcher: what’s left won’t help the housing crisis.
The Conservatives have long dreamed of a property-owning democracy but this version will not solve the UK’s modern housing nightmare.
New South Wales is Australia’s most populous state, with the most expensive capital city – yet it’s done less than many other states to develop cost-effective options for aspiring home owners.
One wants to spend £60,000 on a council house the other thinks it costs the same to build a conservatory.
Australia’s residential house prices rank among the highest in the world, and an increasing number of aspiring home owners are finding themselves locked out of the property market. While low interest rates…
Over the past decade, drug use in the US has risen dramatically, with heroin use reaching epidemic proportions. The country’s policy for combating abuse has involved incarceration, abstinence-only treatment…
On Friday, the National Audit Office released a report detailing its investigation into the COMPASS housing project, a series of contracts between the Home Office and three service providers – G4S, Serco…
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…
The government intends the much-debated bedroom tax to encourage social tenants to leave properties that are too large for them. Opponents say it intrudes into the personal lives of some of Britain’s most…
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Professor of Housing Research and Policy, and Associate Director, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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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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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Hallmark Research Initiative for Affordable Housing, The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct Professor, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Sydney
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Professor, City Futures Research Centre, Faculty of the Built Environment, UNSW Sydney
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Emeritus Professor, University of Sydney
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Senior Research Fellow, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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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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Head of Urbanism and Associate Professor of Urban Studies, School of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney
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Housing Policy Researcher, Expert Advisor, Housing Assessment Resource Tools and Adjunct Professor, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Senior Lecturer in Urbanism, University of Sydney
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Research Coordinator, University of Toronto
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Professor, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland
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Honorary Professor – Housing Policy and Practice, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
