Until recently, affordable housing was mentioned only in conversations involving low-wage or unemployed workers – or the homeless. The only groups that focused on rising rental costs were low-income housing…
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The widening cracks in Australia’s housing system can no longer be concealed. Seven leading Australian academics say this 10 point plan can help fix housing affordability.
Gladys Berejiklian’s first budget as NSW Treasurer includes some infrastructure goodies but misses an opportunity to reduce the state’s reliance on property taxes.
There are well-rehearsed arguments both for and against removing negative gearing from property.
I co-teach a freshman seminar at the University of Texas called “Debt: the Good, Bad and Ugly” that examines the different ways consumers borrow and spend. Do they reflect wise investments in the future…
Treasurer Joe Hockey doesn’t believe Sydney housing is unaffordable. The data suggests otherwise.
Housing affordability, high house prices and rents are attracting plenty of media attention right now. The latest figures on house prices, mortgages, number of first time buyers and so on are dissected…
Home ownership is becoming a fading hope for those without an existing foothold in the market. For increasing numbers of younger Australians, the dream will give way to a future as tenants.
African cities are growing fast - and there are many reasons to be excited about this rapid urban development.
While policies such as negative gearing have helped middle to high income earners own property, they have also locked low income earners out of the market and created an unequal housing sector.
We’ve heard all about building houses and help for first time buyers, but when it comes to housing, the whole economy’s at stake.
Miliband’s plans to stop landlords hiking up rents won’t fix the housing supply problem.
Solar panels and efficiency savings are supposed to balance out building emissions by 2016, but the UK is way behind target.
Miliband throws renters a lifeline but the neediest still miss out on affordable housing.
Hong Kong’s investors have been snapping up London property for years – and now, they’re turning their attention elsewhere.
With a few tweaks to planning or land title laws, co-housing could help to reduce the costs of buying, owning and renting a home.
Most of the best local authority homes were sold off under Thatcher: what’s left won’t help the housing crisis.
We all want security, freedom and independence, but the Conservative Party’s housing proposal does not square with their inheritance tax policies.
The Conservatives have long dreamed of a property-owning democracy but this version will not solve the UK’s modern housing nightmare.
Rises in house prices and rents is far from uniform across the country. But how might this affect voters?
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ARC Future Fellow & Professor of Economics, Curtin University
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Professor of Housing Research and Policy, and Associate Director, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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Head of Urbanism and Associate Professor of Urban Studies, School of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney
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Program Director, Economic Policy, Grattan Institute
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Professor; School of Economics, Finance and Property, and Director, Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute, Curtin Research Centre, Curtin University
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Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Sydney
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Senior Research Fellow, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor, School of Property, Construction and Project Management, RMIT University
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Emeritus Professor, University of Sydney
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Emeritus Professor of Housing and Housing Studies, RMIT University
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Professor of Housing Research, University of Adelaide
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Alan Morris is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor, Institute for Public Policy and Governance, University of Technology Sydney
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professiorial Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Social Epidemiology and Director of the Centre of Research Excellence in Healthy Housing at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne
