There is growing polarisation in Australian housing markets between those who have attained or will attain home ownership, and those who will spend their housing careers in private rental housing. While this has an obvious equity dimension, it also affects the efficiency of urban and regional housing economies. In the 11th Annual F. Oswald Barnett...

The new small and medium sized businesses that are a by-product of this corporate restructuring use spatial networks instead of hierarchy (e.g. vertical and horizontal integration) to address agency problems and reduce transaction costs.

Paul Flatau, Patric Hendershott, Richard Watson and Gavin Wood report on the development of an integrated model of the housing system that incorporates the broad range of drivers that influence the housing market, including the role of aspirations, household formation, economic incentives and labour market interactions.

Australian state and federal governments spend a large amount of money on providing housing assistance to Australian households. This housing assistance takes a variety of forms. It includes the provision of public housing, subsidies for low-income renters in the private sector and various forms of assistance for homeownership. An improved housing outcome for the recipient...