Journal Articles
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Housing influences life chances and trajectories through many roles, differently and in relation to the socioeconomic characteristics of people and population groups. This article uses the concept – ‘housing niches’ to present an alternative, bottom-up, plural and bundled view of housing and advantage.
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Nordic and international research recognises the vulnerabilities and often poor outcomes for care leavers. However, their interrelationship with housing or homelessness as a specific outcome of concern is not well established. In this article we provide an overview of Norwegian and Australian studies to highlight the emerging research in this area and applicability to the Nordic context.
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The involvement of people with lived experience is broadly recognised as beneficial, and possibly essential, to effective service and policy planning. However, in the field of homelessness service delivery, this has not been thoroughly researched. This study found that the homelessness services appear to have actively aspired to meaningful service user participation, however tensions for policy and practice remain.
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Economist Saul Eslake said there were issues on both the demand and supply side, claiming the current tax system was favouring investors over owner-occupiers which was driving up price.
“Acknowledging that it has been politically controversial,” he said. “It would be to remove the tax preferences that investors enjoy that inflate the demand.”
The Grattan Institute flagged taxation was distorting prices, particularly on the current discounts provided on assets through capital gains tax.
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William Marble and Clayton Nall in the Stanford University Department of Political Science wanted to see what it would take to change people’s minds on development. They surveyed people in the 20 largest metro areas and found that people formed attitudes toward new development independently from their overall political ideology.Urban voters aren’t likely to embrace a strategy of getting out of the way and letting the market do its magic. Many are inclined, instead, to stand in the way to keep the market from doing harm. But if we were more honest about the limitations of the market, it would be easier to convince people that local governments can hold private development accountable for delivering benefits to people who are being left out.
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Ending the limitations on new social and affordable housing created by what has been labelled Nimbyism Not In My Back Yard might require a top down legislative approach as well as a bottom up community engagement strategy.
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The built environments in which we live, work and play, have a critical role in shaping our health. The Healthy Built Environment Indicators presented here are based on this knowledge. The focus of the Indicators is on how the built environment supports physical activity (to reduce obesity, the risk of heart disease, some cancers and depression), social interaction (to reduce risk of mental illness, particularly depression), and the availability of healthy food (to reduce obesity and risk of heart disease and some cancers).
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With a growing community housing sector that is being increasingly seen by government as the growth provider for affordable housing in the future and with organisations wanting to set up CLTs but lacking the knowledge to do so, Louise’s team set out to find a solution. As a result they developed two main options: long-term leasehold and shared equity of the entire house and land.
