Only a small proportion of housing is affordable for low-income earners, while people on Newstart or Youth Allowance don’t have any affordable options at all.
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For renting to become a truly viable, long-term alternative to home ownership, greater rental affordability and security is needed.
Scott Morrison will renew his warnings against tampering with negative gearing, in a speech on Monday.
Any attempt to improve security for tenants should not deprive them, or their landlords, of the flexibility that many also want. The key problem is landlords’ ability to give notice without a reason.
Generation Rent may force a complete rethinking of home ownership as a basis of our housing systems. Rather than representing security, these housing markets make us vulnerable.
Renters worry that asking their landlords for better insulated homes could cause a rent hike.
The need for new housing solutions for these low-income groups is clearly a pressing requirement.
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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 Urban and Regional Planning, University of Sydney
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Emeritus Professor, Urban Planning and Policy, University of Sydney
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Assistant Professor of Economics, Bocconi University
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Associate professor in urbanism, University of Sydney
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Emeritus Professor of Housing, UNSW
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Research Associate, HHAUS research group, Swinburne University of Technology
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Research Professor, Centre for Urban Transitions, Swinburne University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer in City Planning, UNSW