Relaxing restrictions on small and non-traditional houses can help to increase the supply of affordable rental housing.
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In a period when homelessness and housing costs have reached crisis levels, it’s time to look at housing co-operatives as a potential game-changer.
Providing more decommodified housing alternatives, like co-op, could offer a partial remedy to rampant housing inequality in Canada.
Canadians need to take steps to better address the financial insecurity of seniors. Otherwise, Canada may encounter a growing tide of desperate seniors in the near future.
In the first analysis of its kind, researchers interviewed Australians over 50 who have been house-sitting for more than a year.
New production methods, consumer trends and good ideas have the potential to bring manufacturing back into city centres. Can it coexist with housing?
Affordable housing has become a middle-class problem, and Ontario’s latest housing report reflects an approach that continues to marginalize those with the greatest need.
There is no universal minimum for the amount of living space we need. Rising spatial inequality, however, adversely impacts us on both individual and collective levels.
As demand grows for real estate and housing prices rise, more people are being priced out of the market. Government intervention is needed to produce affordable housing and control speculation.
The affordability of housing prices is important for the nation’s economic growth.
The government has long promoted the idea that we can build our way out of the housing crisis. Startling numbers of empty homes suggest the problem isn’t one of scarcity but affordability
A single open-air car park takes up land that could potentially house hundreds of people.
Plastic versions of igloos show an early example of culturally sensitive housing, abandoned in favour of inadequate southern-style structures.
It’s possible to prevent homelessness, but it will take a commitment and dedication to understanding the conditions that produce it.
Biden proposed $1.9 trillion in new coronavirus relief spending to help with the economic fallout of COVID-19. Four economists have a few ideas for him.
In both London and Liverpool – two extremes of Britain’s polarised housing market – activists have been busy re-imagining the future of public housing.
People who buy property through shared ownership may become trapped by high costs and rising property values.
Of 2,646 hectares of public land being prepared for sale in Victoria, 24 sites are suitable for building high-quality public housing in places of high need. Why isn’t the land being used for this?
Coronavirus has made it glaringly obvious how serious the problems with UK housing are.
Current measures prohibiting the eviction of tenants and helping them through the financial crisis won’t last forever. A 40-year-old voucher program might be a longer term solution.
Top contributors
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Emeritus Professor of Housing, UNSW
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Associate Professor & Global Challenge Lead, Urban Transformations Research Centre, Western Sydney University; University of British Columbia
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Associate Profesor, School of Planning, University of Waterloo
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor, Urban Studies and Public Policy, Simon Fraser University
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Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Sydney
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Emeritus Professor, Urban Planning and Policy, University of Sydney
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Professor of Housing & Social Policy, HHAUS Housing, Homelessness & Urban Studies, Swinburne University of Technology
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John Curtin Distinguished Professor, Curtin University
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Associate Professor, Sociology cross-listed in Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Western University
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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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Executive Dean, UniSA Business, Adelaide University
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Visiting professor, Harvard University
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Professor of Housing Research, Adelaide University
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Research associate, The University of Melbourne