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A longtime critic of Atlanta’s BeltLine explains how the popular network of parks has increased inequality in the city and driven out lower-income residents.
Although many say the economic outlook for next year appears bleak, there is room for optimism.
Miami is often held up as an example of ‘climate gentrification.’ But a closer look finds a bigger driver of flashy new developments in low-income neighborhoods.
The main driver of homelessness in Australia is housing costs – post-COVID rents, house prices and interest rates are all much higher. To house everyone, the housing system needs a major overhaul.
Both major parties’ schemes would put upward pressure on house prices – but not much. Here’s why, according to a former Australian Treasury official.
Anthony Albanese on Sunday formally launched Labor’s campaign, with promises for low paid women, and aspiring home buyers.
Private companies rate all kinds of investments, from stocks to used cars. Now, they’re starting to analyze climate risks to local real estate – but how reliable are their findings?
The fine print shows its an inquiry into housing “supply”, but supply isn’t a particularly urgent problem.
Unconventional policies can be used to alleviate — instead of exacerbate — inequality, something Canadians are clamouring for. The Bank of Canada needs to rediscover its former innovation zeal.
Failing to address skyrocketing housing prices risks the future of young Australians and the financial system.
Australian data suggest that prices do not fall when zoning is relaxed.
You’d think falling housing prices might help people on low incomes, but history shows downturns often increase inequality. And many buyers who took out big loans during the housing boom are at risk.
In Atlantic Canada, leaders must avoid the mistakes made in the country’s largest cities where people are being pushed out due to high housing prices.
One in four Australian households now rent their homes in the private rental market. Flexibility and lifestyle are key reasons some choose to rent even if they can afford to buy a home.
Hundreds of thousands of Australians are forced into inadequate or unhealthy housing by high housing costs.
While governments focus on how to ease congestion and make affordable housing more accessible for workers in our biggest cities, fast rail could be a mixed blessing for regional cities.
Household wealth in Australia has taken its biggest dive since the global financial crisis. But it’s not all doom and gloom.
Governments should stop offering false hopes and pandering to NIMBY pressures. As well as increased public and private housing supply, growing cities need well-designed higher-density development.
The Productivity Commission neglected the impact of housing costs. After allowing for these costs, the top 10% of households’ average disposable income grew at 2.7 times the rate of the bottom 10%.
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PhD Candidate, Swinburne University of Technology
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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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Professor of Housing Research and Policy, and Associate Director, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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Program Director, Economic Policy, Grattan Institute
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Senior Lecturer, Research School of Economics, and Research Associate, Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, Australian National University
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Professiorial Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Urban Policy and Director, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Professor of Housing & Social Policy, Centre for Urban Transitions, Swinburne University of Technology
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Adjunct associate, Swinburne University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer in Urban Geography, The University of Melbourne
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Director and Professor, Australia-China Relations Institute (ACRI), University of Technology Sydney
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Professor, University of Sydney
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Program Director, Trade and Investment, United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney
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Emeritus Professor, Department of Political Economy, University of Sydney
