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NSW’s housing crisis
Hal Pawson | March 18, 2023A rapidly increasing population and soaring interest rates and rents have created a growing housing crisis which the new NSW government will have to deal with, whatever side of politics takes power.
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Higher living costs could increase homelessness
Ben Knight | August 28, 2022While we wait for a national housing plan, inflation and higher rents threaten to squeeze more households out of their homes and onto the streets.
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Optimising social housing conditions
Open Forum | August 20, 2022New social and public housing research offers insight into the situations many Victorians found themselves in during the pandemic.
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The high rise life
Nadia Razzhigaeva | July 26, 2022Nobody likes living in small, noisy, cramped apartments, particularly parents with children, but the rising costs and increasing density of Australia’s cities is leaving people with no choice.
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Melbourne dweller’s “Russian” winter
Chris Jensen | June 29, 2021Australia’s housing just isn’t good enough when it comes to dealing with winter temperatures – we need to take lessons from the Northern Hemisphere.
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A home of one’s own stays out of reach for many
Sam Tsiaplias | February 3, 2021Despite rising numbers of new home loans amid the COVID-19 economic recovery, the outlook for housing affordability remains bleak and more of us will be renting long term.
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Housing locational disadvantages in Sydney
Khandakar Al Farid Uddin | January 12, 2021Plans to concentrate new housing in Western Sydney should be revised to ensure adequate additional infrastructure is provided and more diverse and equitable solutions are explored.
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A plan for social housing
Hal Pawson | October 10, 2020The Community Housing Industry Association’s Social Housing Acceleration and Renovation Program (SHARP) would deliver an extra 30,000 homes and renovate thousands more over four years.
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Repairing the housing market
Hal Pawson | September 21, 2020The fallout from COVID-19 for housing and homelessness just adds to the urgency of fixing the long-standing ills of the housing market. The well-being of Australia’s economy and people depends on it.
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Stamping out stamp duty
Richard Holden | July 5, 2020It’s time to reform stamp duty, one of the most inefficient and distorting taxes collected by Australia’s state and territory governments.
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The ‘missing middle’ offers a new housing solution
Open Forum | June 6, 2020The days of urban McMansions are numbered and a QUT architecture lecturer says the solution to more flexible, affordable housing lies between a large home and a unit – the ‘missing middle’.
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Australian housing needs a shake-up
Hal Pawson | February 21, 2020Millions of Australians are struggling with unaffordable housing. It’s a systemic problem that’s been decades in the making, and only concerted system-wide reforms will fix it.