Search results for: housing affordability

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7 March 2024
Hand holding the key of a house

Are co-operatives the missing piece in Australia’s housing puzzle?

Rental housing co-operatives offer affordable, secure homes while fostering community and tenant empowerment. Despite success elsewhere, Australia's sector is underdeveloped, highlighting the need for policy and financial support for expansion.

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24 February 2021

Green rental housing policy saves money and the environment

A shift towards green building standards will unlock environmental, economic and social benefits in the affordable rental housing sector new Griffith University research has found.

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20 November 2018
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31 October 2018

Experts to open new doors at 2018 Affordable Housing Symposium

Industry and academia will focus on delivering and managing a Build-to-Rent market within a whole-of-life approach.

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9 October 2017

Symposium seeks solutions to increasing ‘housing stress’

More than 70 leading experts tackled one of the country's biggest problems at the 2017 Australian Social and Affordable Housing Symposium.

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9 May 2017

Home affordability remains an issue

Owning your own home may become a ‘great Australian pipe dream’ for some first home buyers. The Federal Government can...

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4 August 2016

Symposium calls for improved housing for people with disabilities

Calling on the housing sector to improve housing options and rights for people with disabilities will be the focus at the eighth National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) Symposium.

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13 April 2016

Housing Symposium looks to the future

Professor Paul Burton from the Urban Research Program recently hosted a Housing Futures forum.

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9 June 2021
Tiny House

Australia’s big interest in tiny houses

Despite early forecasts of a COVID-19-driven slump, house prices are now surging in many parts of Australia. This is further widening the gap between the housing “haves” and “have-nots”, and we are seeing related rises in housing stress, rental insecurity and homelessness. In Australia and elsewhere a movement has emerged that supports tiny house living as an important response to the housing affordability crisis.

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2 June 2023

Driving social responsibility and impactful research

Pro Vice Chancellor (Business), Professor Caitlin Byrne, is set join several other Griffith University leaders in participation of the Vinnies...

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