Housing
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Monthly digest on housing affordability and homelessness – Jan/Feb 2021
The following is the latest instalment of a monthly digest of interesting articles, research reports, policy announcements and other material relevant to housing stress/affordability and homelessness – with hypertext links to the relevant source. Continue reading »
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Housing Hypocrites: Tim Wilson’s housing affordability crusade just an assault on super
Tim Wilson is the latest Coalition politician to cry crocodile tears over the housing affordability crisis, calling for Australians to access their superannuation to buy a house. Yet Coalition policies – from negative gearing, property subsidies, money-laundering, super fund borrowing to banking and lending standards – are all about pushing up house prices to benefit Continue reading »
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Housing affordability and homelessness – monthly digest: Dec 2020/Jan 2021
The latest instalment of a monthly digest of interesting articles, research reports, policy announcements and other material relevant to housing stress/affordability and homelessness. Continue reading »
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Responding to Callaghan: completing Australia’s retirement income system
The Retirement Income Review (Callaghan) Report concluded that the Australian retirement income system is effective, sound and its costs are broadly sustainable. Continue reading »
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Monthly digest on housing affordability and homelessness – Nov/Dec 2020
The following is the latest instalment of a monthly digest of interesting articles, research reports, policy announcements and other material relevant to housing stress/affordability and homelessness – with hypertext links to the relevant source. Continue reading »
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Monthly digest on housing affordability and homelessness – Oct/Nov 2020
The following is the latest instalment of a monthly digest of interesting articles, research reports, policy announcements and other material relevant to housing stress/affordability and homelessness – with hypertext links to the relevant source. Continue reading »
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Housing affordability and homelessness – Monthly Digest Sept/Oct 2020
The following is the latest instalment of a monthly digest of interesting articles, research reports, policy announcements and other material relevant to housing stress/affordability and homelessness – with hypertext links to the relevant source. Continue reading »
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Social Housing: the social need and the economic opportunity
The unfairness of Joe Hockey’s first budget in 2014 presaged the end of his political career. If Josh Frydenberg fails to address the need and opportunity for action on social housing will it start his political decline? Continue reading »
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Monthly digest on housing affordability and homelessness – Aug/Sept 2020
The following is the latest instalment of a monthly digest of interesting articles, research reports, policy announcements and other material relevant to housing stress/affordability and homelessness – with hypertext links to the relevant source. Continue reading »
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Why a social housing stimulus is a measure Morrison cannot ignore.
Given our Prime Minister’s famously well-honed skill of tapping into the public mood, as well as his claims to an economically hard-headed approach to policymaking, you would surely expect a social housing stimulus plan to be front and centre of his upcoming financial plan. Continue reading »
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Houses are becoming commodities to buy and sell and not homes.
The Property Council and our tame media are obsessed on property prices. Are prices up or down this month? They see property as a commodity for wealth creation. Housing policy should be about housing as a human right and for use, where in homes we raise families, entertain friends and where we can close off Continue reading »
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Monthly digest on housing affordability and homelessness – July/Aug 2020
The following is the latest instalment of a monthly digest of interesting articles, research reports, policy announcements and other material relevant to housing stress/affordability and homelessness – with hypertext links to the relevant source. Continue reading »
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Monthly digest on housing affordability and homelessness – June/July 2020
The following is the latest instalment of a monthly digest of interesting articles, research reports, policy announcements and other material relevant to housing stress/affordability and homelessness – with hypertext links to the relevant source. Continue reading »
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Monthly digest on housing affordability and homelessness – May/June 2020
The latest instalment of a monthly digest of interesting articles, research reports, policy announcements and other material relevant to housing stress/affordability and homelessness – with links to the relevant source. Continue reading »
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Monthly digest on housing affordability and homelessness – Apr/May 2020
The following is the latest instalment of a monthly digest of interesting articles, research reports, policy announcements and other material relevant to housing stress/affordability and homelessness – with hypertext links to the relevant source. One of the key themes for this instalment is that now is an ideal time – for a range of good Continue reading »
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BRENDAN COATES. Money for social housing the key to construction stimulus
There’s no doubt Australia’s construction industry is facing tough times. COVID-19 has caused migration to slow to a trickle. Some 2.6 million Australians have either lost their jobs or had their hours cut in the past two months. Many economists expect property prices to fall. Continue reading »
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HAL PAWSON. Why COVID Commission must back social housing stimulus
The Prime Minister’s COVID Commission is supposed to be advising government on how to ‘facilitate the fastest possible recovery of lives and livelihoods’ after the pandemic. Yet it’s main focus appears to be the promotion of a fossil-fuelled medium-term industrial strategy tailored to mining interests. Advocacy for a social housing stimulus investment program would be Continue reading »
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WENDY HAYHURST AND BILL RANDOLPH. Australia can, and must, build the post-pandemic recovery with more social housing
The Australian Treasurer has acknowledged that boosting infrastructure spend would be a good way to kickstart our country’s recovery from the current pandemic. Continue reading »
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Monthly digest on housing affordability and homelessness – Mar/Apr 2020
The following is the latest instalment of a monthly digest of interesting articles, research reports, policy announcements and other material relevant to housing stress/affordability and homelessness – with hypertext links to the relevant source. Unsurprisingly, much of the following is Covid-19 focused, as the pandemic has undoubtedly made the relevant issues more pressing than ever, Continue reading »
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Monthly digest on housing affordability and homelessness – Feb/Mar 2020
The following is the latest instalment of a monthly digest of interesting articles, research reports, policy announcements and other material relevant to housing stress/affordability and homelessness – with hypertext links to the relevant source. Although housing affordability and homelessness have featured less in the news over the past month, due to our almost exclusive (and Continue reading »
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KOBI MAGLEN. SVA’s approach to improving outcomes for older women at risk of becoming homeless
Estimates suggest 300,000 Australian women aged between 45 and 65 are at risk of homelessness when they retire. Continue reading »
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Monthly digest on housing affordability and homelessness – Jan/Feb 2020
The following is the latest instalment of a monthly digest of interesting articles, research reports, policy announcements and other material relevant to housing stress/affordability and homelessness – with hypertext links to the relevant source. Continue reading »
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Monthly digest on housing affordability and homelessness – late Nov 2019 to mid Jan 2020
This is part of what is normally a monthly digest of interesting articles, research reports, policy announcements and other material relevant to housing stress/affordability and homelessness – with hypertext links to the relevant source. Due to the just past Christmas holiday period, this particular digest covers more than the usual monthly period, and is therefore Continue reading »
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WENDY HAYHURST. Why adequate and affordable housing matters to productivity
A growing body of research is demonstrating the adverse productivity impacts of inadequate or unaffordable housing in Australia (and elsewhere). Continue reading »
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Dwelling construction is still falling despite record low interest rates
Monetary policy has lifted the prices of the most expensive dwellings, but this impact is yet to flow through to the rest of the housing market. This experience reinforces doubts about the effectiveness of monetary policy when inflation and therefore interest rates are very low. Continue reading »
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Monthly digest on housing affordability and homelessness – Oct/Nov 2019
This is a monthly digest of interesting articles, research reports, policy announcements and other material relevant to housing stress/affordability and homelessness – with hypertext links to the relevant source. Continue reading »
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DAVID PEARSON. Ending homelessness – From charity to impact!
We have come to think of homelessness as something normal or an inevitable part of everyday life. It is anything but. In a country as prosperous, generous and as committed to the fair go as Australia, we ought not to accept it. For those who want to end homelessness, one of the most important things Continue reading »
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LIONEL ORCHARD. Home Ownership, Social Housing and Progressive Housing Policy for Changing Times
The foundations of a balanced and equitable housing system in Australia have been corroding for some time to a point where ways forward are becoming more vexed. Questions about how to respond are difficult because of the legacy of neglect over recent times and changing economic and social conditions making for greater complexity in delivering Continue reading »
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REBECCA THOMAS. Disability scheme housing should be more responsive to need
Despite Specialist Disability Accommodation (SDA) payments having been rolled out initially in 2016, with good intentions, the level of suitable disability accommodation in Australia is still woefully low. The approval process for individuals to get SDA into their NDIS plans has been slow, inconsistent and not transparent. Even the eligibility criteria are unclear. Continue reading »
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HAL PAWSON. The First Home Loan Deposit Scheme: Housing affordability action – or just more busy work? (UNSW Blogs 31-10-19)
The Australian Government has this week revealed the policy details for the First Home Loan Deposit Scheme (FHLDS). From 1 January qualifying first home buyers (FHBs) become eligible for a government guarantee that will enable them to access a mortgage with a 5% deposit rather than the normal 20%, at no extra cost to the Continue reading »
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