Shared ownership schemes can unlock access to suitable housing, although these are less common in Australia than overseas, write Ilan Wiesel and Karen R Fisher.
Critics have characterised the Productivity Commission's latest report as a charter for “privatisation” of public housing. Yet it's not a manifesto for an entirely marketised and deregulated framework driven by the profit motive, writes Hal Pawson.
Just how overpriced are Australian dwellings? and what is the outlook for house prices in the next few years? are two of the questions to be discussed at UNSW’s annual Real Estate Symposium.
Market-led housing strategies are leaving lower-paid CBD workers struggling with long commutes and businesses at risk of labour shortages, write Ryan Van den Nouwelant and Laura Crommelin.
Providing temporary housing after the Fiji cyclone might indulge our ‘saviour mentality’ but the long-term solution lies in mobilising communities to rebuild their own homes, argues David Sanderson.
Widespread speculation that other banks will follow Westpac’s interest rate rise is already having a dampening effect on house prices, says UNSW's Nigel Stapledon.
