The states that are delivering more affordable housing have sophisticated, multi-pronged strategies to serve the full range of needs.
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Concerns about the privatisation of public housing estates should not blind us to the benefits of the transfer of public housing to the not-for-profit community housing sector.
Older Australians are keenly aware of the housing challenges they face, but most are wary of co-housing due to the negative associations of shared living spaces.
In the second part of our review of what The Conversation experts have to say about housing, we focus on affordability, social housing and what government can do about a growing crisis.
The housing supply solution our leaders are advocating will only work if affordability is simply a problem of supply. In fact, Australia is almost a world leader in rates of new housing production.
Although the federal-state agreement does it inadequately and lacks transparency, an enduring program of federal funding for operational expenses is essential to sustain the social housing system.
The report’s stated goal is to make the social housing system work better. It does not present as a manifesto for an entirely marketised and deregulated framework driven by the profit motive.
Given its flagship status, the Logan public housing project’s abandonment could be a serious setback for Australian housing and urban policy.
Top contributors
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Emeritus Professor of Housing, UNSW
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Emeritus Professor, Urban Planning and Policy, University of Sydney
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John Curtin Distinguished Professor, Curtin Business School, Curtin University
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Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University
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Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Sydney
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Research Fellow, School of Communication, Society & Culture, Macquarie University
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Research Fellow (Housing and Homelessness) at the Centre for Social Impact, UNSW
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Professor of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Lincoln
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Professor of Property and Housing Economics, Adelaide University
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Professor, City Futures Research Centre, Faculty of the Built Environment, UNSW
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Honorary Professor of Housing Policy and Practice, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW
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Vice Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow, RMIT University
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Research Principal (Business and Sustainability), University of Technology Sydney
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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
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Associate professor, RMIT University