This report looks at three main questions: How much gentrification has actually taken place over the last decade and how much household displacement has occurred as a result of the loss of affordable housing? What are the social and economic costs to communities and to low-income households in these neighbourhoods, either as they are displaced...

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...

In this positioning paper, Judith Yates, Bill Randolph, Darren Holloway and Dominique Murray introduce a project to test the impact of high housing costs on the workplace-home relationship for all workers. They identify 'indicator' groups in the workforce that might be seen to be typical of workers who are likely to experience real constraints on...

This project has two objectives: to describe the role of housing markets and housing policies in influencing the locational choice and geographic mobility of income support recipients and other low-income groups; and to analyse the relationship between housing location and employment opportunities, using statistical methods to identify the direct impact of location upon outcomes.

This paper presents the research plan for a project that will examine these questions focusing on working age income support recipients and other members of the low-income population across Australia.