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‘Shelter is a Dignity’: Rental Racism, Stress and Housing (In)justice

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australia's private rental sector is in crisis, and culturally and racially minoritised renters face compounded harms through both covert and everyday direct forms of rental racism. Drawing on five community‐based focus groups in Melbourne (n = 37), the paper explores how racism manifests across the rental pathway and how it structures the ...
Erika Martino   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Intensified Manufactured Non‐Belonging: Working Holiday Makers in Australia During the COVID‐19 Pandemic

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Nations manufacture non‐belonging of temporary migrants through policy frameworks that produce exclusion. This precarity maximises the economic benefit of temporary migrant labour by minimising their political, social and legal rights. In this paper, we examine how non‐belonging targeting Working Holiday Makers (WHMs) is manufactured in ...
Donna James, Alanna Kamp
wiley   +1 more source

Rethinking Support Allocation: Mental Health and Patterns of Homelessness Support Utilisation

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Homelessness support agencies face substantial puzzles in allocating scarce resources: who gets access and who stays on the waitlist? This paper examines the influence of mental illness on the patterns of consuming non‐clinical homelessness support by persons experiencing homelessness and at risk.
Godwin Kavaarpuo, Kathryn Daley
wiley   +1 more source

Cohesion Without Consensus: Attitudinal Profiles of Social Cohesion in Australia

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Headline indicators of social cohesion in Australia have remained stable in recent years despite rising political polarisation and declining institutional trust worldwide. Yet recent protests and incidents of ethnically and politically motivated violence suggest that cohesion may be under strain. If cohesion is understood not as the pursuit of
John van Kooy
wiley   +1 more source

Housing and Tax Policy

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2016
This paper investigates the effects of housing‐related tax policy measures on macroeconomic aggregates using a dynamic general‐equilibrium model featuring borrowing and lending across heterogeneous households, financial frictions in the form of collateral constraints tied to house prices, and a rental housing market alongside owner‐occupied housing. We
Alpanda, Sami, Zubairy, Sarah
openaire   +3 more sources

Housing policy and children

1998
Housing for children is critical, and the younger the child, the more important is the quality of the physical shelter and of the immediate environment generally. An infant’s proper growth and development will partly depend on satisfactory housing. A family’s home is, for example, the principal determinant of children’s essential play opportunities ...
Paul Daniel, John Ivatts
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Housing policy transformed

2010
This book seeks to understand the Right to Buy, the most controversial housing policy of the last thirty years, on its own terms, rather than most studies which focus on its negative impact. It explains how the policy links with a coherent ideology based on self-interest and the care of things close to us.
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Housing and Monetary Policy [PDF]

open access: possible, 2007
My remarks focus on the relationship between monetary policy and the recent turmoil in the markets for housing, housing finance, and beyond. I begin with a review of the period leading up to the crisis. I then use this review as a basis for discussing the role of monetary policy in resolving such crises and preventing future crises.
openaire   +2 more sources

Housing Policies or Housing Politics

Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, 1975
The policies developed to face the critical housing problems in Chile by the last formally democratic administrations (Alesandri, 1958-1964; Frei, 1964-1970; Allende, 1970-1973), and their relative failures, constitute an important experience to be carefully considered by the underdeveloped world.
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Housing Taxation and Housing Policy

1967
In much of the world, the supply of housing is largely determined by private investment decisions; in some other countries, housing investment decisions are public ones in large part, but housing is offered at close to economic prices, and consumer decisions as to the disposition of consumption expenditures have a bearing on the level and composition ...
openaire   +1 more source

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