Access to finance is a significant barrier for Māori communities wanting to develop housing on collectively owned land. Community initiative Whare Ora shows what can be done.
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Targets of 50,000 new homes for rent at below-market rates and 1 million homes to improve affordability in general are positive steps, but the budget neglects the need to reform an ailing system.
We measured financial literacy among 589 informal carers that substantially helped an older person make a decision about paying for residential aged care. Less than half were financially literate.
Based on research comparing projects across the country, a new assessment tool calculates cost-effective ways to fund affordable housing to meet specified needs in different markets.
Business conditions aren’t translating to confidence, despite growing profits and jobs.
The bond aggregator by itself cannot create a housing development pipeline. It needs co-investment from government to make it feasible.
Scott Morrison has been exploring a UK model for channelling investment via a specialist financial intermediary into new affordable housing provided by landlords with a social purpose. It makes sense.
Where investment loans were the fastest growing category of housing finance at the end of 2015, it is now the leading area of contraction.
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Adjunct Professor, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer City Planning, UNSW
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Associate professor in urbanism, University of Sydney
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Honorary Professor of Housing Policy and Practice, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW
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Scientia Professor of Economics, UNSW
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Senior Lecturer in Finance, University of Sydney
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Emeritus Professor of Housing, UNSW
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Professor and Director, Macquarie University Centre for the Health Economy, Macquarie University
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Professor, City Futures Research Centre, Faculty of the Built Environment, UNSW
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Lecturer in Business, Auckland University of Technology