Housing: The great Australian right
Almost everyone in Australia is feeling the impact of the national housing crisis, which is traumatising individuals, families and communities. In the reconstruction period following World War II, governments...
Affordable Housing
The changing geography of homelessness in Australia (2001–21) and its structural drivers
Homelessness has grown in the suburbs of Australian capital cities, with more than 60 per cent of those experiencing homelessness at the 2021 Census found in Australia’s capital cities (up from around 48% in...
Providing for the locals? Australian local governments and their capacity to supply affordable housing
This thesis analyses the challenges local governments in Australia have in providing affordable housing in their local government areas. The study fills the knowledge gap of understanding the firsthand...
The trends and patterns of informal housing practices in Australia
Informal housing is well-documented in the Global South, with emerging evidence of a growing trend in the Global North. However, its hidden nature complicates policy intervention due to challenges in...
Energy analysis of standardized shipping containers for housing
Shipping containers that remain in ports after exporting or importing products cause an environmental and logistical problem. Transporting them to the port of origin is costly; therefore, some of them are...
Reset or renaissance? An exploratory comparison of pre- and post-pandemic regional short-term rental markets in Australia
Following nearly a decade of unabated growth in the digitally disruptive short-term rental (STR) sector, the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 caused a relatively abrupt two-year industry contraction...
Measuring housing affordability: Scoping the real cost of housing
Lower-income households make trade-offs to afford their housing costs but most of these are not accounted for in the housing affordability measurements used by policy makers, according to new AHURI research....
Exploring affordable housing policy in federal states: Social housing and housing allowances in Australia, Austria, Canada, and Germany
In federal states, constituent units play an important role in affordable housing policy. Nevertheless, insights into affordable housing policy in federations are lacking. To lay the grounds for future...
Earnings, productivity and housing expenditure: Who retains the wage-related agglomeration effect?
Productivity gains enable real wage growth and improved standards of living. But whose income actually benefits from productivity gains when highly productivity urban locations in Australia, and other...
The role of strategic planning in ensuring sustainable housing markets in a neo-liberal planning context
The article illuminates how local government uses strategic planning in a context characterized as neo-liberalist-oriented housing market, to frame the broad varieties of planning and policy-instruments they...