Housing

It's the Great Australian Dream: to own your own home. A staggering 85 per cent of Australians attempt it at some stage in their lives - the highest percentage in the world.Government policies, the economy and local geographical factors affect the housing choices of different generations, from the 'safe and sound' postwar generation and the 'Baby ....

Many rural towns where mining is dominant industry are characterised by housing stress and lack of affordable housing. High demand for housing in prospering mining towns has driven up rates for rental housing. Although mining company employees earn high wages, other members of the community have difficulty in finding or paying for ....

The City of St. Paul has helped develop a broader vision for the corridor, and 10 community development organizations - including LISC - have created a new collaborative--the Frogtown/Rondo Action Network--to implement priority strategies related to housing preservation, small business support, neighborhood jobs and minority contracting ....

The aims of the research which is detailed in this final report included to: examine the relationships between housing policy and regional development by positing that local housing market conditions primarily determine the range and extent of social and economic impacts of government housing interventions; critically evaluate the ....

Resource boom towns in the Pilbara and Goldfield regions of Western Australia and the Bowen Basin region of Queensland have experienced recurring housing shortages and crises. The housing situation has had a negative impact upon these communities in a variety of ways, and in the case of Karratha in particular, constitutes a community crisis. This ....

Resource boom towns in the Pilbara and Goldfield regions of Western Australia and the Bowen Basin region of Queensland have experienced recurring housing shortages and crises. The housing situation has had a negative impact upon these communities in a variety of ways, and in the case of Karratha in particular, constitutes a community crisis. This ....

NATSEM is part of the way through a three-year Australian Research Council Linkage project on 'Regional dimensions: new models for analysis of the spatial effects of policy, socio-demographic and economic changes'. This 'regional linkages' project aims to develop and apply spatial microsimulation techniques to generate detailed syn ....

The participation of homelessness assistance agencies throughout the Loddon Mallee Region (LOMA) in workshops 'Putting human rights into action: using human rights in homelessness advocacy and service delivery' is discussed. The key aspects of the workshops are highlighted. Report Locationhttp://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary; ....

The paper uses official secondary data to demonstrate that there is no compelling case for a policy change that would encourage recentralisation from small discrete Indigenous communities (outstations/homelands/emerging communities) to larger discrete Indigenous communities. Nor is there a compelling policy case for a move from out ....

Many of Australia's rural and regional centres have not been immune from the housing crisis that has been widely acknowledged within metropolitan Australia. This study found that the suite of housing programs being rolled out nationally has had a variable and often muted level of impact in rural and regional housing markets. Report Locationhttp ....

This document forms part of a series of documents prepared by the Department for Planning and Infrastructure (DPI) in conjunction with LandCorp, for the Western Australian Planning Commission (WAPC). These documents provide a snapshot of land supply in regional centres experiencing land and housing supply pressures as a result of growth in the re ....

This paper is part of a broader project on household inequality and living standards being conducted by the Social Policy Research Centre in partnership with the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The main purpose of the paper is to discuss methodological issues in assessing geographical differences in the propensity of households to ....

Medical education in Australia is currently entering a new era, including support for the significant extension of medical students and general practitioner (GP) registrars' training programs in rural communities. This commitment to rural medical student and general practitioner recruitment and retention has made the provision of a ....

Includes data over varies years on population, family and community, health, education, work, economic resources, housing, crime and justice, transport, economic activity. Report Locationhttp://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/Lookup/1368.1Main+Features12007?OpenDocument ....