Housing
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The impact of the housing crisis on the mental and physical health of children
In Australia, we pride ourselves on our egalitarianism, yet now cannot even provide security of accommodation for everyone. How can this be, when older women who have lost their financial security from family break-up and illness, and even young women with small children, end up couch-surfing or sleeping in a car? Continue reading »
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Housing crisis: Can a universal basic income solve homelessness?
Chalmer’s first budget critiqued; Why does Australia have a rental crisis?; and Razzhigaeva explores whether a universal basic income can help address homelessness. Read on for the latest monthly digest of articles on housing affordability and homelessness. Continue reading »
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Frankel: Australia’s housing affordability and homelessness crisis
National Housing and Homelessness Agreement ‘ineffective’; Governments must address structural factors leading to housing unaffordability; and First Nations people face discrimination in the private rental market. Read on for the latest monthly digest of articles, research reports, policy announcements and other material about housing stress/affordability and homelessness. Continue reading »
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The market has failed to give Australians affordable housing, so don’t expect it to solve the crisis
The federal Labor government has promised to craft a national housing and homelessness plan and to fund new social housing, returning Canberra to a field it all but abandoned for a decade. A new Productivity Commission report is scathing about current arrangements and calls for far-reaching change. Continue reading »
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Frankel: Australia’s housing affordability and homelessness crisis
1 in 28 indigenous people homeless, Australian rental market “hurtling toward disaster”, and $575 million committed to affordable housing in this month’s report on Australia’s housing affordability and homelessness crisis. Continue reading »
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Learning from people who are homeless
A homeless person’s life, burdened, as it often is, by physical and mental illness, addiction, and social disadvantage, can lead us to think their life is meaningless and of no value; but we can be so wrong, they have much to teach us. Continue reading »
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Oliver Frankel’s Monthly digest – Housing is a human right, not a commodity
This is the latest monthly digest of articles, research reports, policy announcements and other material about housing stress/affordability and homelessness. Continue reading »
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Monthly digest on housing affordability and homelessness
This is the latest monthly digest of articles, research reports, policy announcements and other material about housing stress/affordability and homelessness. Continue reading »
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A comparison of Labor and the Coalition’s policies to assist first home buyers
Australia has a problem of housing affordability, but it is mainly concentrated among the poorest young families. Labor’s housing policies are better directed to improving their equality of access, but neither of the major political parties’ policies are adequate to the task. Continue reading »
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Monthly digest on housing stress, affordability and homelessness
This is the latest monthly digest of articles, research reports, policy announcements and other material about housing stress/affordability and homelessness. Continue reading »
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Priority actions for the next federal housing minister
Housing is yet again up there as a major concern in this year’s federal election debate. Given the rising cost of putting a roof over your head in today’s Australia, that’s hardly surprising. Buying a home will now set you back 30% more than at the start of the Morrison government’s current term in office. Continue reading »
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Monthly digest on housing affordability and homelessness
This is the latest monthly digest of articles, research reports, policy announcements and other material about housing stress/affordability and homelessness. Continue reading »
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