Affluent incomers have both positive and negative impacts on many coastal and country areas. This paper considers ideas about ‘sea change’ and ‘tree change’ and the impacts of multiple dwelling ownership, mobility and migration between metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas.

This paper describes residents’ perceptions of 'social mix', utilising three case studies of social housing estates based in South Australia that have undergone substantial changes to social mix to reduce concentrations of public housing tenants and attract private home owners into the areas.

Peter Saunders and Peter Siminski examine the impact of home ownership on income distribution and the incidence of low-income using data from the Household Expenditure Surveys conducted in 1993–94 and 1998–99. Using the market value approach to derive an estimate of imputed rental income, they conclude that in 1998–99 imputed rent had an equalising distributional...

Income targeted home ownership assistance programs can play an important role in helping to restore social and economic equity in an environment where the gap between the 'haves' and 'have-nots' is steadily growing. This report by Shane Greive, Vasanthi Peter, John Ballard, Roz Walker, Cheryle Taylor and Jean Hillier aims to contribute to the development...

Based on trends obtained from census data to 2001, a fall in rates of home ownership has been observed among Australians aged less than 35 years. Debate has arisen as to whether this fall is due to changing affordability (with the implication that, in the future, a much higher percentage of Australians will never be...