Labor has made a substantial commitment to tackling inequality in Australia, but has taken a second-best approach to overcoming the huge shortfall of social housing.
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Working-class residents of Waterloo have a history of resisting threats to their community. Many tenants see the redevelopment of public housing as state-led gentrification to squeeze them out.
A tenfold increase in building is needed to overcome the current social housing shortfall and cover projected growth in need. But it can be done, and direct public investment is the cheapest way.
Shared equity models have a dual benefit of making home ownership affordable for people on modest incomes and freeing up scarce social housing for other households in need.
As Melbourne's population hits 5 million, it's a reminder that growing cities must make much better use of vacant and underused land to meet the urgent need for affordable housing.
Survival sex can be a viable option for women managing homelessness. It ranged from staying with men for a night or a woman remaining in a sexual relationship to avoid becoming homeless again.
Migrants have similar home ownership rates to the overall population and rely less on public housing. But housing supply shortfalls and higher prices have reduced ownership among recent migrants.
A first glimpse of the low-income housing scheme, designed in collaboration with West, raises red flags.
Tasmania has an estimated rental housing shortfall of 29,200 households across the state. Especially in disadvantaged rural areas, local councils have had to step in to help house residents locally.
When the city centre was revitalised in the 1990s, homeless people were pushed out. With homelessness rising today, it's important to recognise the links between urban development and displacement.
The problem with most public housing 'renewal' programs is that the residents have the least say in what happens to the places they call home. The evidence of housing research is also being ignored.
The evidence is clear on the sort of support that is needed to reduce the harms of drug use. A punitive approach that denies people a second chance makes it more likely they will reoffend.
A decade after the launch of a national campaign to reduce homelessness, the latest figures show Australia is going backwards. Research points to problems in the public housing system as a key factor.
The Victorian government isn't alone in seeking private partners to renew public housing. What is notable is its lack of transparency by comparison with such arrangements elsewhere.
Three innovative projects set to be completed this year are geared toward strengthening communities that have been left out of the economic recovery.
Slashing government spending on housing and scrapping a key financing option for new units would make it harder than ever for low-income Americans to keep a roof over their heads.
All but a handful of the former public housing tenants are gone. But despite the government again rejecting the recommended heritage listing of the Sirius building, the fight to save it isn't over.
The states that are delivering more affordable housing have sophisticated, multi-pronged strategies to serve the full range of needs.
Residents of two high-rise public housing blocks are being given 'mood lights' to express how they feel based on their experience of the process of redeveloping their neighbourhood.
A modest rebalancing of federal tax policy toward build-to-rent housing could fill affordable housing funding gaps. Australian funds are already investing in such a scheme in the US.
Top contributors
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Associate Director - City Futures - Urban Policy and Strategy, City Futures Research Centre, Housing Policy and Practice, UNSW
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Transforming Housing Project, University of Melbourne
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Professor of Urban Planning, University of Melbourne
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Alan Morris is a Friend of The Conversation.
Research Professor, University of Technology Sydney
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Honorary Associate Professor, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Research Fellow, City Housing, UNSW
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Transforming Housing Research Network, University of Melbourne
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Research Fellow, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW
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Program Director, Master of Urbanism, School of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney
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PhD Candidate, Urban Geography, University of Sydney
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Future Fellow, University of Melbourne
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PhD Candidate, School of Social Sciences, UTas and Senior Research Consultant, Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS, University of Tasmania
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Dean, Research and Innovation, University of South Australia
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Emeritus Professor of Housing and Housing Studies, RMIT University
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Lawrence Vale is a Friend of The Conversation.
Ford Professor of Urban Design and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
