Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Transforming Housing Project, University of Melbourne
Dr Kate Raynor is a Post-Doctoral Researcher working on the Transforming Housing project. This is an action research project focused on investigating strategies to increase the amount and quality of affordable housing in Melbourne. The project combines academic research with a strong emphasis on engagement with industry, government and philanthropic partners. Kate’s other research interests include urban consolidation, higher density housing and media analysis.
Prior to joining the University of Melbourne she worked in digital communications, providing community engagement support for large-scale infrastructure and development projects.
Jun 07, 2019 15:54 pm UTC| Insights & Views Real Estate
Housing in Australia is broken. Across the country, only 2% of private rentals are affordable for a person on the minimum wage. Less than 1% are affordable for a single person on the pension. There are 650,000 households...
Affordable home-ownership scheme offers a pathway out of social housing
Oct 04, 2018 15:45 pm UTC| Insights & Views Real Estate
Social housing is in crisis in Australia, with almost 200,000 people on waiting lists. Social housing made up 8% of all housing stock in Australia in 1966. This had fallen to just 4.3% at July 2016. As a result,...
Ten lessons from cities that have risen to the affordable housing challenge
Sep 28, 2018 08:14 am UTC| Insights & Views Real Estate
Imagine planning a public transport system for a large city by providing one bus at a time on one route that might serve a few dozen people (but nobody knows how many). That is what planning for housing affordability looks...
Put unused and 'lazy' land to work to ease the affordable housing crisis
Sep 09, 2018 20:45 pm UTC| Insights & Views Real Estate
Greater Melbourne officially became home to 5 million people last month thats almost 90% of the states population. This growth is fuelling the citys affordable housing crisis. According to the amended Planning and...
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