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Editor's note
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Whether buying or selling, renting or investing, the national debate about housing touches us all. And the Great Australian Dream of security and prosperity is tied more closely to housing than almost anywhere else in the world, so the nation feels the impacts of policy success and failure.
This week we offer a selection of pieces by experts in the housing sector on how Australia should tackle pressing issues of affordability, insecurity and homelessness.
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Top story
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Housing has become just another investment asset - but the consequences are unsettling.
AAP/NewZulu/Peter Boyle
Hal Pawson, UNSW; Bill Randolph, UNSW; Judith Yates, University of Sydney; Michael Darcy, Western Sydney University; Nicole Gurran, University of Sydney; Peter Phibbs, University of Sydney; Vivienne Milligan, UNSW
The widening cracks in Australia’s housing system can no longer be concealed. Seven leading Australian academics say this 10 point plan can help fix housing affordability.
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The evidence on housing
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Chris Martin, UNSW
Any attempt to improve security for tenants should not deprive them, or their landlords, of the flexibility that many also want. The key problem is landlords' ability to give notice without a reason.
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Peter Phibbs, University of Sydney; Nicole Gurran, University of Sydney
To tout new housing production as the only solution to rising house prices, without examining the question of demand, is an ineffective policy position.
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Ralph Horne, RMIT University; David Adamson, The University of South Wales
A decent national housing policy is not just about the million or so Australians who are in housing need, marginal housing or homeless. In reality, all the housing sectors are connected.
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Alan Morris, University of Technology Sydney
For the increasing proportion of people living in private rental accommodation who can expect to be dependent on the age pension, the prospects of financial and housing insecurity are grim.
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Cameron Parsell, The University of Queensland
Not only is it cheaper to provide permanent supportive housing to the homeless, but the improvement to their lives is immeasurable.
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Carolyn Whitzman, University of Melbourne
Some common misapprehensions remain about who needs affordable housing and how those needs might be met.
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Featured jobs
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Parliament of Victoria — Melbourne, Victoria
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RMIT University — Melbourne, Victoria
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University of Melbourne — Parkville, Victoria
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Monash University — Clayton, Victoria
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Featured events
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State Library of Victoria, Theatrette. 179 La Trobe Street, Melbourne , Victoria, 3000, Australia — La Trobe University
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Studio 1 – ACMI Federation Square, Melbourne, Victoria, 3000, Australia — Futures Foundation
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UNSW , Sydney, New South Wales, 2052, Australia — UNSW
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CSIRO, 3-4 Castray Esplanade, Hobart, Tasmania, 7004, Australia — University of Tasmania
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