The research undertaken for this report was motivated by a concern that high housing costs in central city regions are excluding many lower paid workers from jobs in those regions. According to Judith Yates, Bill Randolph and Darren Holloway, claims that structural change has led to a re-urbanisation of the inner city regions of global...

This bulletin by Peter Chapman synthesises the evidence from a range of AHURI studies and other research on housing affordability. It includes the latest estimates on housing affordability by Judith Yates and Michelle Gabriel from the AHURI Collaborative Research Venture, Housing Affordability for Lower Income Australians.

Paul Memmott, Stephen Long and Linda Thomson find that the people of Dajarra, Alpurrurulam and Mt Isa, although exceptionally mobile by Australian mainstream standards are, for the most, relatively stable in their customary attachment to their home community, country and their cultural region. This is despite the hardships of living in remote semi-arid locations, despite...

Andrew Beer, Debbie Faulkner and Michelle Gabriel find that a number of overlapping processes have contributed to changes in ‘housing careers’ or housing consumption patterns in recent years, which have seen, for example, a growing number of individuals living with their parents into their 20s and 30s. Factors promoting these changes include shifts in attitudes...

In this background paper for the Housing Affordability for Lower Income Australians project, Judith Yates and Michelle Gabriel analyse new estimates of the numbers of households with affordability problems, assess which households are most at risk of having moderate or severe housing affordability problems, and provide an indication of the extent to which the assessment...