home ownership

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Fewer young people have the means to buy their first home, but is there a way to shortcut a failing system?

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The $20 billion spent on assistance may have benefited existing home owners more than new home owners, a new report finds.

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Finding stable housing is one of the biggest challenges facing prison leavers. Access to public housing flattens the curve on recidivism.

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UNSW Business School is investigating how people decide whether a reverse mortgage is a good way to supplement their retirement income.

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We can choose to construct property markets in which some privileged citizens stockpile more residential property than they can ever use, or we can recognise that affordable housing is a basic necessity for a fulfilling, autonomous, human life, writes Cathy Sherry.