The clichés about housing supply and regulatory restraints are distractions from the need to focus on expanding the affordable housing sector to directly meet the needs of low-income households.
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Super is the wrong tool to provide an adequate support in retirement for low-income earners. Our research shows top-up measures to help this group are poorly targeted and too expensive.
It’s not just about finding money for things like solar panels – poorer households can also find it harder to gain access to reliable information about the green energy options they do have.
Despite consistent but slight rises in the minimum wage, successive governments have dropped the ball on providing adequate support to low income working families.
Mixed-income housing has been promoted as a panacea to concentrated poverty and crime. But recent research raises some red flags.
For decades, public housing stood as the most architecturally visible and politically stigmatized reminder of urban poverty in many American cities. Originally built to accommodate an upwardly mobile segment…
Starting school early improves disadvantaged children’s learning, according to a new study from the University of New South…
Election FactCheck is checking key claims in political advertisements. Here we look at the “If Tony Abbott Wins, You Lose” ad from Labor. Families will lose the Schoolkids Bonus The Coalition has made…
The high cost of eating a nutritious and well-balanced diet is driving people on low incomes towards processed, unhealthy…
A good job, like where you get like heaps of money. I’d be like a decent mum, like a husband with no violence and everything, so it could be a happy family, you know, but like that would never happen…
The well-being of low-income Australian households is being seriously undermined by the increasing cost of housing and electricity. Many such households are suffering from both housing stress and energy…
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African Population and Health Research Center
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Senior Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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African Population and Health Research Center
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Research Fellow, Australian National University
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Professor, Discipline of Political Economy, University of Sydney
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Program Director, Housing and Economic Security, Grattan Institute
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Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Sydney
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Alan Morris is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor, Institute for Public Policy and Governance, University of Technology Sydney
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Researcher, The University of Melbourne
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Ford Professor of Urban Design and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Honorary Professor of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor, College of Business, Government & Law, Flinders University
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Professor and Director, Australian School of Architecture and Design, UNSW
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)