Articles on Public housing
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It is the second time in days that the One Nation leader is on the back foot after making a personal attack.
Social housing is being built at the fastest pace since the 1980s. But we are still leaving hundreds of thousands of Australians waiting for a home.
More than 540,000 people live in public housing in Australia. Recent court cases show how tenants can challenge relocation when laws aren’t properly followed.
With teacher shortages mounting and housing costs soaring, school districts from California to Ohio are experimenting with a new solution: building homes for educators on school-owned land.
Anti-immigrant housing policies have been cast as a way for citizens to access more housing, but they fail to prevent the shortages driving the crises.
Canada treats land as a tradeable asset, forgetting it’s the foundation for homes, communities and stability. If the country is serious about solving the housing crisis, it must change that.
While young people who spent the first year of their lives in public housing started with higher levels of behaviour difficulties, by 12 they had closed the gap.
The Great Society’s Model Cities Program wasn’t perfect. But it offered a vision of what democratic, community-based planning could look like.
Housing announcements are everywhere right now, but few are based on evidence. Here’s what the politicians aren’t talking about, but should be.
Its staggering forms made monuments out of ordinary places frequented by ordinary people.
Plans to knock down and rebuild 44 public housing towers are flawed. Retrofitting and upgrading is feasible, cheaper and better for people and the planet.
Agencies that help people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness are struggling to house them because of the shortfall of social housing and intense competition for affordable rentals.
The scheme is another worthy micro-measure, but a wider, cohesive housing strategy remains absent.
Our research shows decent homes could be lost – and the social and environmental costs of demolition should not be ignored.
Our research shows decisions on the fate of public housing towers that are based on a proper process of considering all the evidence could go either way: demolish and rebuild, or retrofit.
Amid a housing affordability crisis, new research suggests the federal government should allocate resources to the housing needs of children being raised by single mothers.
People wait years for social housing. In before-and-after interviews, the fortunate ones who were placed in secure, affordable housing describe the profound difference it has made in their lives.
Alan Kohler’s Quarterly Essay lays out how the policies of successive governments have not only failed to address housing problems, but actively created them.
A major factor driving our housing crisis is a shift toward corporate-owned buildings. Today’s guest, Prof. Nemoy Lewis, explains how we got here.
The thinking behind the state government’s ambitious housing plan is simple - build more homes and they’ll be more affordable.


















