Table Of ContentHOUSING IN 21ST-CENTURY AUSTRALIA
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Housing in 21st-Century Australia
People, Practices and Policies
Edited by
RAE DUFTY-JONES
DALLAS ROGERS
University of Western Sydney, Australia
First published 2015 by Ashgate Publishing
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Housing in 21st-century Australia : people, practices and policies / [edited] by Rae Dufty-Jones and Dallas
Rogers.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4724-3113-4 (hardback)
1. Housing – Australia. 2. Housing policy – Australia. I. Dufty-Jones, Rae. II. Rogers, Dallas.
HD7379.A3H686 2015
363.50994–dc23
2015008820
ISBN 9781472431134 (hbk)
ISBN 9781315587110 (ebk)
Contents
List of Figures vii
List of Tables ix
Notes on Contributors xi
Preface xiii
1 Housing in Australia: A New Century 1
Rae Dufty-Jones and Dallas Rogers
PART 1 PEOPLE AND PRACTICES
2 Housing Multigenerational Households in Australian Cities: Evidence
from Sydney and Brisbane at the Turn of the 21st century 21
Edgar Liu, Hazel Easthope, Bruce Judd and Ian Burnley
3 Ethnic Discrimination in Private Rental Housing Markets in Australia 39
Jacqueline Nelson, Heather MacDonald, Rae Dufty-Jones, Kevin Dunn
and Yin Paradies
4 Housing and Sustainability: Everyday Practices and Material Entanglements 57
Chantel Carr and Chris Gibson
5 Indigenous Housing 73
Daphne Habibis
6 Reshaping Housing Consumption and Production from the Bottom Up:
Insights from Interpretivist Housing Research 89
Wendy Stone
7 Boomer Housing Preferences: Active Adult Lifestyle Communities versus
Aging in Place 105
Caryl Bosman
8 Policy Implications for Governing Australia’s Apartment Communities:
Tenants, Committees of Management and Strata Managers 121
Erika Altmann
HOUSING IN 21ST-CENTURY AUSTRALIA
PART 2 POLICIES
9 Private Rental Housing in Australia: Political Inertia and Market Change 139
Kath Hulse and Terry Burke
10 Keynes in the Antipodes: The Housing Industry, First Home Owner Grants
and the Global Financial Crisis 153
Elizabeth Taylor and Tony Dalton
11 The Historical Construction of ‘The Public Housing Problem’ and
Deconcentration Policies 173
Kathy Arthurson and Michael Darcy
12 Reviewing the Social Housing Initiative: Unpacking Opportunities and
Challenges for Community Housing Provision in Australia 187
Kristian Ruming
13 Homelessness, the ‘Housing First’ Approach and the Creation of ‘Home’ 205
Hazel Blunden and Gabrielle Drake
14 21st-Century Australian Housing: New Frontiers in the Asia-Pacific 221
Dallas Rogers and Rae Dufty-Jones
Index 237
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List of Figures
3.1 Accommodation situation for new migrants to Australia by stream 42
5.1 Proportion of people living in overcrowded housing, by remoteness
area, 2006 78
6.1 Downshifters’ characteristics, attitudes and engagement with
income/expenditure 94
6.2 Typology of downshifters’ housing circumstances 96
7.1 Location map of the case study sites: Halcyon Waters, Helensvale,
Golden Crest Manors and Nerang, Gold Coast City Region, Queensland
108
10.1 Dwelling supply and supply-oriented interventions, Australia 155
10.2 First home owner grants, established and new homes, Victoria 2000–2013 158
10.3 First home owner grant expenditure, new and existing dwellings
Victoria 2000–2013 159
10.4 Value of first homeowner grant programs and private dwelling
commencements 160
10.5 FHOG grants by postcode, 2007–2008, Melbourne 163
10.6 Indicators of housing price trends, Victoria, 2003–2010 166
11.1 Radburn style estate with cul de sacs at Bonnyrigg Estate in NSW 176
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List of Tables
2.1 Top ten reasons for living in multigenerational households, multiple
responses, Sydney and Brisbane, 2012–2013 27
2.2 Dwelling structure of multigenerational households, Sydney and
Brisbane, 2011–2013 30
2.3 Tenure profile of multigenerational households, Sydney and
Brisbane, 2011–2013 31
2.4 Challenges of multigenerational co-residence, multiple responses, Sydney
and Brisbane, 2012–13 32
3.1 Reported discrimination in housing across 15 EU member states 41
3.2 What makes it hard to find accommodation (Humanitarian entrants only) 46
3.3 Experiences of racism when renting/buying a house (Challenging Racism
Project 2001–2008; Ordinariness of Australian Muslims Survey 2011) 47
3.4 Agent flexibility 50
3.5 Provision of information 51
3.6 Interactions with agents 51
3.7 Requirements for renting 52
3.8 Encouragement to rent 52
5.1 Household tenure type, persons aged 15 years and over 74
5.2 Australia’s estimated Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population
by state and territory (at 30 June 2011) 77
5.3 Estimated Resident ATSI Population by Remoteness Areas, 2011 77
7.1 Statistical comparison of the two case study sites (four zones) highlighting
key socio-economic characteristics of the different areas 109
10.1 Descriptive statistics, model variables for FHOGs and quarterly new
dwelling activity, Victoria 2003–2012 161
10.2 Regression model results: value of new building activity, Victoria ($000s) 161
10.3 Regression model results: new dwelling commencements, Victoria 162
12.1 Interviews conducted 188
