Housing markets never have met the lowest-income households' needs. Now is the time to tackle problems that have been years in the making by creating a better system to supply their housing.
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The ABC's new soap opera The Heights is a nuanced representation of the diversity and community of life on a social housing estate.
Socialisation of housing would see profits from rent put back into the maintenance and modernisation of the buildings.
If we recognised social housing as infrastructure as essential as transport links, schools and hospitals, not properly investing in it could become unthinkable.
For the first time a state government housing agency has effectively contracted out all its operations in some regions, but will this improve and add to the total social housing stock?
It's time to ditch this divisive label, and recognise the real cause of housing inequality.
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.
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.
Barangaroo is an example of a development with admirable green credentials, but it is also an exclusive precinct that has played a role in displacing the disadvantaged from this part of Sydney.
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.
Record numbers of families rent privately in England. But the law has not kept a fair balance between landlord and tenant rights.
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.
Cities overseas that have been able to overcome the affordable housing challenges facing cities like Melbourne have adopted a coordinated and systemic approach to scaling up solutions that work.
Much of the innovation in providing social housing is coming from community housing providers around the country. And it's desperately needed given the state of housing inequality in Australia.
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.
New policies on social housing and rough sleeping offer little fresh thinking on how to solve Britain's housing shortage.
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.
Community gardening improves people's health, and our new study has found it does wonders for disadvantaged groups living in social housing.
Another affordable housing pact between the Commonwealth, states and territories came into effect this month. But with no new funding, the agreement may be different from predecessors in name only.
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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Professor of Urban Planning, University of Melbourne
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Honorary Associate Professor, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Sydney
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Director, Henry Halloran Trust, University of Sydney
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Transforming Housing Project, 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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Alan Morris is a Friend of The Conversation.
Research Professor, University of Technology Sydney
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Director, City Futures Research Centre, Faculty of the Built Environment, UNSW
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Visiting Senior Fellow - City Futures Research Centre, Housing Policy and Practice, UNSW
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Director, Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute, Curtin Research Centre, Curtin University
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Research Fellow, City Housing, UNSW
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Lecturer in Urban Management and Planning, Western Sydney University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Transforming Housing Research Network, University of Melbourne
