housing rental in australia
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The changing nature of private rental in Australia Based on AHURI Final Report
The PRS occupies a critical position in the Australian housing system, providing much of the system's growth and flexibility. Housing policy settings, however, have focused historically on home ownership and social housing, but the steady growth of the PRS has drawn attention to Australian households as both consumers and providers of rental housing. There are now more private renters on lower and higher incomes, more households with children; more households renting at mid life, and more long term renters (10+ years) The PRS also provides accommodation for people in a wide range of other circumstances, including international students and new migrants.
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Demand Side Assistance in Australia's Rental Housing Market: Exploring Reform Options
This research examines possible cost effective reforms of Commonwealth Rent Assistance (CRA) (demand side housing assistance) that could improve housing outcomes for low income renters.
Rachel Ong Hal Pawson Ranjodh B Singh Chris Martin
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Examining building age, rental housing and price filtering for affordability in Melbourne, Australia
Governments worldwide have responded to housing affordability challenges with supply side solutions. Proponents of these approaches often draw on the notion of 'filtering effects' to argue that new supply naturally trickles down to lower income households over time, improving affordability. This study examines the characteristics of Naturally Occurring Affordable Housing in Melbourne, Australia, analysing how dwelling age impacts rental cost. We specify a non linear relationship between building age and rents through hedonic rent modelling, reflecting a premium for historic properties in inner Melbourne. We also conduct a cluster analysis of rental listings and measure affordability by cluster. Our results problematise the notion of filtering, finding that most contemporary affordable housing was initially built in the 1960s and 1970s as social housing or targeted at low income households. We argue that filtering in this instance is not natural but is instead a reflection of historic government expenditure and past construction choices, or 'filter up'
Matthew Palm Katrina Raynor Georgia Warren-Myers
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Tenants' Responses to Substandard Housing: Hidden and Invisible Power and the Failure of Rental Housing Regulation
ABSTRACT Unsafe and unhealthy housing is a major problem in the private rental sector in a number of countries, despite the existence of regulations intended to protect people from such housing. Rental housing quality regulation often relies on tenants reporting problems with their housing, but this fails to take account of power dynamics in the tenant landlord relationship that make it difficult for tenants to do so. Drawing on Lukes' three dimensional view of power, we build a new framework for analysing power at the "micro" level of the relationship between tenant and landlord. We apply this to a review of qualitative research on tenants' responses to housing quality problems in Australia, England, New Zealand and the United States. We find that the interactions of visible, hidden, and invisible dimensions of power work to prevent the effective airing and resolution of grievances about housing quality and render current forms of regulation inadequate.
Elinor Chisholm Philipa Howden-Chapman Geoff Fougere
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Rent and crisis: Old housing problems require a new state of exception in Australia
The coronavirus pandemic is opening up a space for housing advocates and scholars to push for reforms to the private rental sector. Yet, we argue the Australian government has shown little commitment to addressing long term, structural housing issues. Temporary reform will not lead to a new or more socially just housing system in the long term a new housing normal without a significant and nation wide tenant campaign. Like others, we are working together on campaigns such as this, but we are conscious that the government is likely to revert back to their old housing habits.
Sophia Maalsen Dallas Rogers Leo Patterson Ross
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Next moves? Expanding affordable rental housing in Australia through institutional investment
Efforts to engage institutional investment in rental housing provision were badly damaged by the 2014 termination of the National Rental Affordability Scheme (NRAS) yet lessons can be learned from the NRAS initiative and these should inform a successor program. Building on our major 2013 study, a newly published City Futures report reviews the NRAS experience and other emerging developments around the institutional financing of rental housing. With contributions from (CFRC Visiting Fellow) Judy Yates and Prof Peter Williams (Cambridge University) the report focuses mainly on the Australian context. However, it also references rapidly unfolding UK developments involving both government and industry led initiatives that have made major advances in this space over the past two years and which have possible implications for Australia. Drawing on interviews with finance experts and senior policymakers, as well as a review of recent Australian and UK publications, the report details 10 recommendations to government for action to re start progress towards this widely shared policy objective.
Vivienne Milligan Hal Pawson Peter Williams Judith Yates
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Ethnic Discrimination in Private Rental Housing Markets in Australia
Over the last two decades new and significant demographic, economic, social and environmental changes and challenges have shaped the production and consumption of housing in Australia and the policy settings that attempt to guide these processes. These changes and challenges, as outlined in this book, are many and varied. While these issues are new they raise timeless questions around affordability, access, density, quantity, type and location of housing needed in Australian towns and cities. The studies presented in this text also provide a unique insight into a range of housing production, consumption and policy issues that, while based in Australia, have implications that go beyond this national context. For instance how do suburban based societies adjust to the realities of aging populations, anthropogenic climate change and the significant implications such change has for housing? How has policy been translated and assembled in specific national contexts? Similarly, what are the significantly different policy settings the production and consumption of housing in a post Global Financial Crisis period require? Framed in this way this book accounts for and responds to some of the key housing issues of the 21st century.
Jacqueline Nelson Heather Macdonald Rae Dufty-Jones Kevin Mark Dunn Yin Paradies
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The Everyman archetype: discursive reframing of private landlords in the financialization of rental housing
Abstract This article investigates the politico cultural processes underpinning the financialization of private rental housing. Exploring the case of Australia, it shows how debt financed landlords have been discursively reframed as 'mum and dad investors' who are valorized politically as enterprising, self reliant and providing essential housing. This article then critically appraises this depiction based on available secondary data, and finds that protagonists are, predominantly, midlife and older households with higher household incomes and higher wealth levels. Furthermore, deployment of an Everyman archetype is a politico cultural device for normalizing this type of activity as part of the financialization of everyday life. Discursive reframing bolsters political and public support for investor landlordism as an important contributor to asset based welfare.
Housing Studies
Kath Hulse Margaret A Reynolds Chris Martin
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More Different Futures Network Topic Review: Rental Housing Market Impacts and Policies
The network produced strong videos discussing private rental sectors in Australia (Chris Martin) Britain (Ken Gibb) and Canada (Steve Pomeroy) and Hal Pawson's overview for the Australia/Canada bilateral also touched on key issues. The aim of this paper is to draw on these contributions to briefly outline the impacts and policy implications of COVID 19 on rental housing markets through the emergency, stimulus and longer term/recovery housing periods.
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Subsidised affordable rental housing: lessons from Australia and overseas
What the research did: This report examines the supply of subsidised affordable housing via the National Rental Affordability Scheme (NRAS) in Australia and the international approaches of the Low Income Housing Taxation Credit (LIHTC) scheme in the US and the Affordable Rents program in England. The research focusses on NRAS developments in NSW, Qld, Vic and WA from the perspective of affordability, spatial and investment return outcomes. What the research found: While NRAS was flawed in its administration it did achieve considerable success. There was an increase in the supply of subsidised affordable rental housing in Australia with 27,606 extra dwellings as at June 2015 and 37,583 expected in total (DSS data) Subsidising rents by 20 per cent below market level increased the number of suburbs accessible to income eligible households with the potential to lift a third of all eligible households out of housing stress. NRAS properties are predominantly in suburbs with mid range investment potential, ie. where subsidised rents are 60 80 per cent of the metropolitan median. The model encouraged a diversity of housing delivery, unlike the US which was directed to apartments. The scheme assisted community housing providers to produce financially viable developments. The LIHTC was made permanent in the US after 7 years while NRAS was discontinued after 7 years. The US example showed that the market needs time to mature and tax reform is needed to attract large scale institutional investment. There is now a gap in the provision of affordable rental supply in Australia with the added concern that current NRAS properties lose their tax incentives after a staggered 10 year period and may return to full market rent.
Steven P Rowley Amity James Catherine Gilbert Nicole Gurran Rachel Ong Peter Phibbs David Rosen C Whitehead