If governments now see AI as a tool to reform housing planning and assessments, they shouldn’t rush headlong.
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The new proposal to phase out tax breaks on more than one investment property would affect around 1% of Australians.
Canadian landlords are able negotiate from a position of structural dominance as tenants confront systemic harms — rent hikes, unsafe conditions and evictions — all on their own.
Agencies that help people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness are struggling to house them because of the shortfall of social housing and intense competition for affordable rentals.
Victoria is leading the way in ensuring poor-quality rental housing is upgraded to be safe, comfortable and energy-efficient.
The federal government says it’s committed to addressing the challenges faced by younger generations, including housing affordability and the high cost of living. Does the budget deliver on its promises?
The number of active short-term rental listings is a small fraction of the total number of dwellings in Australia – and many listings are not in the city areas of great housing need.
Most research on unaffordable housing has focused on homeownership, but rental affordability is also a serious issue.
The government has made housing a federal policy priority after a decade of neglect. But the scale of the housing crisis means its actions to date are just a start – much more must be done.
More Australians than ever live in rented homes, many of which get far too hot. With summers getting longer and hotter, keeping millions of people cool should be a national housing policy priority.
People age differently depending on the lives they lead. DNA testing shows every year of living in a privately rented home add 2.4 weeks of ageing compared to those who own their home.
Other states may well follow Victoria’s lead, but the 7.5% levy is likely to have a very modest impact on rental housing supply. There’s much more governments could do.
Well-off investors with multiple properties own a majority of rental homes. They have no excuse not to do the right thing by their tenants.
COVID-19 halted immigration and housing affordability got much worse. We’d feel the impacts of internal migration and undersupply of affordable housing even if we again blocked migrants from overseas.
The people with the worst health often live in rental homes likely to make them sicker, and poor policy could make it worse.
An ageing population is caught in a perfect storm of rising house prices and rents, falling home ownership rates, mortgage debt carried into retirement, insecure rentals and a lack of social housing.
In dealing with both a digital platform and a private owner, your legal rights as an Airbnb renter can be unclear.
Thermostats don’t tell the whole truth about heat, particularly in older homes.
Without innovation in all five building phases, the industry won’t have the capacity to meet market demands or to deliver the social and affordable housing the government is promising.
The strategy’s core mission should be to ensure everyone in Australia has adequate housing. That requires 950,000 social and affordable rental dwellings to be built by 2041, dwarfing current targets.
Top contributors
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Emeritus Professor of Housing, UNSW
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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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Senior Research Fellow, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW
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John Curtin Distinguished Professor, Curtin University
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Professor of Housing Research, Adelaide University
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Associate Professor, Geography and Urban Studies, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Housing & Social Policy, HHAUS Housing, Homelessness & Urban Studies, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, University of 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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Emeritus Professor, Urban Planning and Policy, University of Sydney
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Research Associate, HHAUS research group, Swinburne University of Technology
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Associate Professor & Associate Investigator ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision Making + Society, Swinburne University of Technology
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John Curtin Distinguished Professor, Curtin Business School, Curtin University
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Associate professor in urbanism, University of Sydney
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Research Associate, Centre for People, Organisation and Work, RMIT University