For a quarter of its residents, Pittsburgh isn’t an affordable place to live. A contested housing policy is at the center of efforts to change that.
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Fixing Canada’s housing issues requires a multifaceted strategy beyond funding innovative construction technology. A holistic solution must include policy reforms.
The people with the worst health often live in rental homes likely to make them sicker, and poor policy could make it worse.
There are no ‘silver bullet’ solutions to a crisis that has left both renters and owners struggling. Only a comprehensive package of bold policies can ensure all Australians are securely housed.
Most local councils, developers and nonprofit providers want mandatory affordable housing requirements applied to all development. The current system of voluntary negotiations just isn’t working well.
People on the minimum wage can afford only 2% of private rentals and only 1% if on the pension. Affordable housing requirements are often mandatory overseas, but Victoria is relying on negotiation.
Almost nowhere in our capital cities can low-income households – and those on average incomes in Sydney – afford the median rent. Mapping rental vulnerability finds it in regional areas too.
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Research Coordinator, University of Toronto
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Associate Professor in Property, The University of Melbourne
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Research associate, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Housing Research, Adelaide University
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Associate Professor in Urban Planning, The University of Queensland
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Professor, Structural & Earthquake Engineering, University of British Columbia
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Associate professor of Health Policy and Administration and Demography, Penn State
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Associate professor in urbanism, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor & Global Challenge Lead, Urban Transformations Research Centre, Western Sydney University; University of British Columbia
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Senior Research Fellow, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW
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Executive Dean, UniSA Business, Adelaide University