One described how the house was ‘excessively damp and mouldy, to the point where all of our furniture and clothes and stuff started to get mould on it.’
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Analysis of online listings on common online platforms shows even modest reductions in Airbnb listings increased supply of longer-term rentals. The result was lower local rents.
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The housing aspirations of young Australians change as they enter their late 20s and early 30s. But having somewhere safe and secure to call home is the top priority for all young adults.
With Australian city rents too high for low-income earners, increasing numbers are forced to share houses or rooms or to live in options like ‘beds in sheds’ and other illegal dwellings.
While share houses are more a matter of financial necessity than choice, many older Australians are discovering it has unexpected social benefits for them.
The share house may be taken for granted now, but before the late 1960s it was hard for women to live independently of families or husbands. For some, communal housing was life-changing.
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ARC DECRA Fellow and Lecturer in Urbanism, School of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney
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Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor and Discipline Lead Property, Curtin University
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Professor of Housing & Social Policy, HHAUS Housing, Homelessness & Urban Studies, Swinburne University of Technology
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Research Associate, Centre for People, Organisation and Work, RMIT University
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Honorary Associate Professor, Journalism, University of Wollongong
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Adjunct associate, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor, Anthropology and Cultural Studies, University of Sydney
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John Curtin Distinguished Professor, Curtin Business School, Curtin University
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Postdoctoral research fellow, 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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Research Assistant, University of Sydney
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Lecturer, UNSW
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Senior Research Fellow, Acting Director, CHETRE, UNSW
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Emeritus Professor, Urban Planning and Policy, University of Sydney