TY - Report AU - Steven Rowley PY - 2012 T1 - Housing affordability, housing stress and household wellbeing in Australia PB - Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute DO - https://doi.org/APO-31055 UR - https://apo.org.au/node/31055 AB - Housing stress measures (using the 30/40 rule) have been criticized in terms of their usefulness for housing policy decision making. One criticism is that some in housing stress do not experience adverse effects on wellbeing. Another is that householders might, by choice, face housing stress in order to access appropriately sized or better quality housing, while others trade-off quality to avoid housing stress. ER -