Housing Afforability Dynamics in Australia 2001-06

Housing Leverage in Australia

A home is the single largest purchase that most households make, and it is one that usually requires some debt financing. Because housing debt is such a large component of households’ balance sheets, it is important to understand the financing decision. In this paper, we use household level data from the HILDA survey to relate households’ leverage to their observed characteristics using both gr...

Lifetime Affordable Housing in Australia

research by Dr John Morrissey, Prof Ralph Horne, Prof Mike Berry and Mr Trivess Moore conducted at the Centre for Design, RMIT University between February 2008 and October 2010. The research examined the relationship between housing cost and provision and long term sustainability limits, considering socio-economic, spatial and inter-generational dimensions. This briefing reports on the influenc...

Tuberculosis notifications in Australia, 2001.

In 2001, there were 997 cases of tuberculosis (TB) reported to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System, of which, 967 were new cases of TB and 30 cases were relapses. The incidence rate of TB in Australia in 2001 was 5.1 cases per 100,000 population. The highest incidence of TB was reported in people born overseas (19.3 cases per 100,000 population), followed by Indigenous Australi...

Commercial Housing Affordability in Beijing , 1992 - 2001

Inclusive Housing in Australia – A Voluntary Response

The lack of inclusive housing in Australia contributes to the marginalization and exclusion of people with disability and older people from family and community life. The Australian government has handed over the responsibility of increasing the supply of inclusive housing to the housing industry through an agreed national access standard and a voluntary strategy. Voluntary strategies have not ...