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Tag Archives: social housing
NICOLE GURRAN and PETER PHIBBS. Policy sentiment rather than substance in housing policy
The Federal Treasurer clearly understands the housing affordability pressures facing moderate and low income renters and Australia’s growing homeless. His budget speech set the scene for a package of measures to boost affordable housing supply and recalibrate demand settings. A … Continue reading
Posted in Housing
Tagged affordable housing, federal budget., housing affordability, housing policy, housing supply, social housing
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LIONEL ORCHARD. Housing Policy: a social democratic response
The missing element in current debates about Australian housing policy is consideration of the social democratic case for building a genuine mixed economy in the housing system respecting the different purposes of the sectors involved – public, private and household. … Continue reading
Making Housing Affordable Series. ROB KOCZKAR. How institutional investment could help housing affordability
Competition between first home buyers and investors is dominating the discussion about housing affordability, but it’s what’s happening a few rungs down the property ladder that is perhaps the greatest cause for concern – the challenges for people trying to … Continue reading
Posted in Housing, SERIES: Making housing affordable
Tagged affordable housing, AHFA, Australian Housing Finance Aggregator, CHPs, Community Housing Providers, first home buyer, HESTA, housing affordability, Housing Finance Corporation (UK), institutional investment, investors, Making Housing Affordable series, private capital, Rob Koczkar, scale, social housing, SVA
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Making Housing Affordable Series. MICHAEL PERUSCO. Revitalising social and affordable housing
The discussion and commentary about housing affordability in Australia has reached a crescendo in recent months. But an important piece of the housing puzzle cannot be overlooked in the debate: the role of social housing. It is time for governments … Continue reading
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Tagged affordable housing, bond aggregator, home ownership, Making Housing Affordable series, Michael Perusco, mixed tenure, NAHA, social housing, subsidy
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Making Housing Affordable Series. DAMIEN WEBB. An institutional scale solution for the social and affordable housing challenge – from a super fund’s perspective
Many well-intentioned solutions have been proposed to address Australia’s housing affordability problem, yet fail to gain traction because the challenges faced by key stakeholder groups aren’t being addressed simultaneously. We believe success on a material scale will be more likely … Continue reading
Posted in Housing, SERIES: Making housing affordable
Tagged affordable housing, Affordable Housing Bonds, AHB, CAHC, CHPs, Community Housing Providers, Damien Webb, financial mechanism; investment model, institutional investment, Making Housing Affordable series, return gap, social housing
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Making Housing Affordable Series. JOHN DALEY, BRENDAN COATES AND TRENT WILTSHIRE (1). Why should we care about housing affordability?
Housing affordability includes a grab-bag of concerns: less money to spend on goods and services other than housing; falling home ownership rates; worsening access to jobs; increasing wealth inequality between and among generations; and increasing risks of a housing-led economic … Continue reading
Posted in Housing, SERIES: Making housing affordable
Tagged Brendan Coates, budget, capital gains tax, house prices, housing, housing affordability, housing policies, John Daley, land taxes, Making Housing Affordable series, negative gearing, renting, social housing, Trent Wiltshire
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Making Housing Affordable Series. JOHN DALEY, BRENDAN COATES and TRENT WILTSHIRE (2). Sorting reality from the appearance of action on housing affordability.
Governments have raised expectations among voters anxious to see action on housing. There is no shortage of proposed policy solutions. But how do we sort the good from the bad? Many policy ideas sound good, but won’t do much in … Continue reading
VIVIENNE MILLIGAN and HAL PAWSON. Ready for growth? Has Australia’s affordable housing industry got what it takes?
Australia lacks any enumerated and resourced plan for expanding affordable housing. Recent growth opportunities in this industry have largely been small-scale, fragmented and ad hoc. As a result, providers have been highly constrained in their ability to predict and plan … Continue reading
CAROLYN WHITZMAN. States drag feet on affordable housing, with Victoria the worst.
Moral panic over recent increases in visibly homeless people in central Melbourne has brought to the fore the critical shortage of affordable housing across the metropolitan areas of Australia’s wealthiest cities. But living on the street is only the tip … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Housing, Politics
Tagged AHRC., Carolyn Whitzman, cities, Cities & Policy, housing affordability, housing affordable housing, housing crisis, housing policy, rental housing, social housing, unaffordable housing
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GETHIN DAVISON & EDGAR LIU. Neighbours’ fears about affordable housing are worse than any impacts.
Housing affordability is a hot topic in Australia. Governments are increasingly recognising that more needs to be done to provide a greater range of affordable housing options, especially in the major cities. It is well documented, however, that proposals for … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Housing, Politics
Tagged affordable housing, cities, Edgar Liu, Gethin Davison, housing Sydney, NIMBYism, property market, property prices, social housing, The Conversation
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ALAN MORRIS. Why secure and affordable housing is an increasing worry for age pensioners.
There is no doubt that an increasing proportion of older Australians on the age pension will be dependent on the private rental sector in coming decades. This is because of the housing affordability crisis and increasing divorce in later life, … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Housing, Politics
Tagged age pension, Alan Morris, cities, cities and policy, housing affordability, housing affordable housing, housing costs, pensioners, rental housing, social housing, The Conversation
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