Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Transforming Housing Research Network, University of Melbourne
Housing and Transportation Geographer, Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne. Formerly a researcher for the California Housing Finance Agency and the University of California, Davis. Published in Housing Policy Debate, the Journal of the American Planning Association, Transport Policy, Transportation, and other top peer-reviewed policy journals.
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...
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...
'Build to rent' could be the missing piece of the affordable housing puzzle
Aug 29, 2017 14:05 pm UTC| Insights & Views Real Estate
Australias state governments, as well as some ambitious local councils, community housing providers and forward-looking private developers, are finally taking note of the housing affordability crisis in our cities. One...
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