Rae Dufty-Jones - Housing in 21st-Century Australia: People, Practices and Policies

People, Practices and Policies

Edited by

RAE DUFTY-JONES
DALLAS ROGERS

First published 2015 by Ashgate Publishing

Published 2016 by Routledge

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Housing in 21st-century Australia : people, practices and policies / [edited] by Rae Dufty-Jones and Dallas Rogers.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4724-3113-4 (hardback) ISBN 978-1-3155-8711-0 (ebook) ISBN 978-1-3171-2099-5 (epub)

1. Housing Australia. 2. Housing policy Australia. I. Dufty-Jones, Rae. II. Rogers, Dallas.

HD7379.A3H686 2015

363.50994dc23

2015008820

ISBN 9781472431134 (hbk)

ISBN 9781315587110 (ebk-PDF)

ISBN 9781317120995 (ebk-ePUB)

Erika Altmann, School of Sociology and Social Work, University of Tasmania, Australia

Kathy Arthurson, Southgate Institute, Flinders University, Australia

Hazel Blunden, School of Social Sciences and Psychology, University of Western Sydney, Australia

Caryl Bosman, School of Environment, Griffith University, Australia

Terry Burke, The Swinburne Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Ian Burnley, City Future Centre, Faculty of the Built Environment, University of New South Wales, Australia

Chantel Carr, Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research, University of Wollongong, Australia

Tony Dalton, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University, Australia

Michael Darcy, School of Social Sciences and Psychology, University of Western Sydney, Australia

Gabrielle Drake, School of Social Sciences and Psychology, University of Western Sydney, Australia

Rae Dufty-Jones, School of Social Sciences and Psychology, University of Western Sydney, Australia

Kevin Dunn, School of Social Sciences and Psychology, University of Western Sydney, Australia

Hazel Easthope, City Future Centre, Faculty of the Built Environment, University of New South Wales, Australia

Chris Gibson, Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research, University of Wollongong, Australia

Daphne Habibis, School of Sociology and Social Work, University of Tasmania, Australia

Kath Hulse, The Swinburne Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Bruce Judd, City Future Centre, Faculty of the Built Environment, University of New South Wales, Australia

Edgar Liu, City Future Centre, Faculty of the Built Environment, University of New South Wales, Australia

Heather MacDonald, School of Built Environment, University of Technology, Australia

Jacqueline Nelson, Cosmopolitan Civil Societies, Faculty or Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Yin Paradies, Centre for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University, Australia

Dallas Rogers, School of Social Sciences and Psychology, University of Western Sydney, Australia

Kristian Ruming, Department of Environment and Geography, Macquarie University, Australia

Wendy Stone, The Swinburne Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Elizabeth Taylor, Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning, University of Melbourne, Australia

This book aims to provide a contemporary text on the significant changes, challenges and debates about how housing in Australia is consumed and governed in the 21st century. Housing in Australia is a national obsession. It is rare for a week to go by without a national media outlet producing a piece about housing affordability, housing policy settings, housing finance etc. Through both empirical and theoretical studies, the book builds on established themes in housing studies such as population and economic change, policy shifts, and homelessness, but also introduces new concerns around Indigenous housing and environmental change. In doing so, the text provides original and in-depth insights into some of the contemporary factors shaping the production and consumption of housing in Australia and how they intersect with policy. While the focus of this text is on Australia, many of the issues confronting housing in 21st-century Australia are familiar concerns to other parts of the world. For instance how do suburban-based societies adjust to the realities of aging populations, anthropogenic climate change and the significant implications such change has for housing? How has policy been translated and assembled in different national contexts? Similarly, what policy settings are required to guide the production and consumption of housing in a post-global financial crisis period?

We would like to thank the many contributors who responded with alacrity and enthusiasm to this project. We believe the chapters assembled in this book will contribute to emerging and ongoing housing debates in 21st-century Australia. Finally, we would like to thank Peter Phibbs, Lauren Costello, Michael Darcy, Tim Jones and Jacqueline Nelson for their enthusiasm, encouragement and support of this project.