W(h)ither Low Cost Private Rental Housing?

Yates, Judith; Wulff, Maryann

doi:10.1080/08111140008727823

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“…In Australia this is most evident in changes within the private rental market where low income households have experienced declining affordability (Yates, 1998, Yates and Wulff, 2000. In the past the private rental market has been a staging post for a large proportion of tenant households but the pattern of movement into owner occupation has been changing.…”

Section: Housing Provision In Australia and Canadamentioning

confidence: 99%

Housing Policy Retrenchment: Australia and Canada Compared

Dalton

2009

Urban Studies

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Housing policy has declined in importance relative to other areas of state policy-making in many Western countries. This paper seeks to understand why this has happened at a time when there has been a decline in the level of housing affordability and supply of affordable rental housing. It presents an argument that a way of understanding this policy retrenchment, through a comparative analysis of Australian and Canadian housing systems, is to consider the way in which housing policy problems are defined, how policy-making capacity is institutionalised in state agencies and the form and extent of civil society mobilisation on housing issues. It is not sufficient to ascribe the declining salience of housing policy to the ascendancy of neo-liberal ideas in policy-making.

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Section: Housing Provision In Australia and Canadamentioning

confidence: 99%

Housing Policy Retrenchment: Australia and Canada Compared

Dalton

2009

Urban Studies

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“…This is to recognise that changes in the composition of tenure may mask displacement within the private rental sector caused by the pressure of escalating rents. For example, Yates and Wulff (2000) show that while the amount of private rental stock increased in Australia between 1986 and 1996, there was a net loss of properties renting for A$100 or less (at 1996 prices). 5.…”

Section: Notesmentioning

confidence: 96%

“…Having grown from 612 in 1971 to 3087 in 1991, the total number of government tenants residing in Inner Adelaide then fell to 3008 in 1996 ( Figure 2). Undoubtedly, rising property prices and rents have indirectly driven some owners and tenants unable to meet these higher housing costs from the inner area of Adelaide (Yates and Wulff, 2000). Therefore, while the number of private tenants in Inner Adelaide has remained reasonably stable through the 1980s and 1990s, amongst the very poor it is only a few thousand government tenants in receipt of rent rebates that can any longer afford to live close to the city centre.…”

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confidence: 97%

Thirty Years On: Gentrification and Class Changeover in Adelaide's Inner Suburbs, 1966–96

Badcock¹

2001

Urban Stud.

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This case study updates a long-running investigation into the revitalisation of inner Adelaide previously reported in Urban Studies in 1981 and 1991. Its value is two-fold: rst, it provides an opportunity to review critically the fate of gentri cation in Australia under economic conditions that others would claim have not always been favourable during the 1990s; and, secondly, it highlights the strategic role of a public housing authority as a lead agency in the process of urban revitalisation. The paper uses data on intercensal change together with an overview of the state government's urban investment policy to argue that the class transformation of inner Adelaide is now effectively complete. During the past decade, there has been a distinct improvement in the fortunes of the inner western suburbs which had previously suffered from long-term decline. The State's Inner Western Program has been instrumental in remediating badly degraded industrial land and rezoning an unused transport corridor through these suburbs and helping to lever private investment in the housing sector. Hence the housing reinvestment and class changeover normally associated with gentri cation has proceeded apace right through the 1990s. After 30 years, the circle of regeneration has almost been completed on all four sides of the City of Adelaide.

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“…The increase in demand has also allowed many landlords to charge higher rents. A substantial body of Australian research reports how households at the lower end of the property market have struggled to find adequate accommodation within their means (see Hulse, 2002;Harding et al, 2004;Powell & Withers, 2004;Slatter & Crearie, 2003;Yates & Gabriel, 2006;Yates & Wulff, 2000). The extent of housing stress amongst low-income households has also been identified.…”

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confidence: 93%

“…Alongside the impact of a rise in the number of households other factors are likely to compound the problems for low-income renters; for example, a vibrant economy as well as population growth to urban areas with limited land availability (Berry & Dalton, 2004). In addition, it is predicted that many more middle-income households will choose to rent their home (for a discussion see Yates & Wulff, 2000) and many landlords are expected to take advantage of house price inflation by capitalising their asset and selling their property (ABS, 2003b). In view of these patterns, it is likely that support aimed at facilitating tenancies within the private rental market will continue to be necessary for low-income households.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 98%