Allowing first home buyers to tap their super would worsen housing affordability, leave many people with less to retire on, and cost taxpayers in the long run.
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The housing and housing affordability crisis will not be solved by a clamp-down on one group of buyers.
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.
The issues keeping those on low incomes out of the housing market are only getting worse over time.
Financial stress is more likely to cause Australians to drop out of home ownership. Why?
Lessons from the sharing economy could provide a housing solution for both buyers and sellers.
Real estate is favourably taxed in Australia, and it will continue to bite the housing market unless there is serious reform.
Already common in the US, the tiny house movement has the potential to take hold in Australia, but only with help from urban planners and regulators.
Until recently, affordable housing was mentioned only in conversations involving low-wage or unemployed workers – or the homeless. The only groups that focused on rising rental costs were low-income housing…
The widening cracks in Australia’s housing system can no longer be concealed. Seven leading Australian academics say this 10 point plan can help fix housing affordability.
Many of the reasons housing is more affordable outside Australia stem from government intervention.
Memories of school demountables might cause some people to sneer at prefabricated buildings. But they can be stylish too, not to mention offering a possible way to ease the housing affordability problem.
I co-teach a freshman seminar at the University of Texas called “Debt: the Good, Bad and Ugly” that examines the different ways consumers borrow and spend. Do they reflect wise investments in the future…
Australia’s obsession with home ownership goes beyond the rational.
Treasurer Joe Hockey doesn’t believe Sydney housing is unaffordable. The data suggests otherwise.
New research shows domestic violence can force women into lower-quality housing – or make it harder to find a home altogether.
With a few tweaks to planning or land title laws, co-housing could help to reduce the costs of buying, owning and renting a home.
Scrapping stamp duty on property transfers altogether would make a meaningful, positive impact on the housing market. But don’t hold your breath; the NSW government is addicted to stamp duty.
Ex-NSW Premier Nick Greiner has proposed that land value embedded in public housing estates be recycled to generate new social housing - by redeveloping the estates into higher density living. Greiner…
The federal government has missed an opportunity to give serious thought to housing affordability in Australia. The House Standing Committee on Economics recently released its report on individual foreign…
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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
