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Item Metadata only The Adelaide Zero Project: Ending street homelessness in the inner city: Discussion Paper(Don Dunstan Foundation, 2017) Tually, S.; Skinner, V.; Faulkner, D.; Goodwin-Smith, I.; Don Dunstan FoundationItem Metadata only One rent increase from disaster: older renters living on the edge in Western Australia, Final Report(Housing for the Aged Action group, 2019) Fiedler, J.; Faulkner, D.; The Wicking TrustThis project has been conducted in light of extensive research that is warning of rapidly increasing housing problems facing older people. The three main factors are: an ageing population, reducing rates of home ownership and significant increases in older people relying on rental accommodation to age-in-place in their later years. The objective of the Project is to increase awareness of older people’s housing issues across Australia, improve older people’s access to affordable housing and ensure better availability of services that can help older people in housing difficulty. More specifically the aims of this project for Western Australia are to: Identify what is the level of homelessness amongst the older population in WA and who is at risk of homelessness in WA; examine the current state policy frameworks that impact on the housing circumstances of older people in WA; identify what are the housing options that currently exist, what are their main characteristics and how do older people apply for them; identify what services are available to help older people access affordable and appropriate housing in WA; propose appropriate recommendations that will lead to a systems reform approach to improve assistance and housing for low income older people.Item Metadata only One rent increase from disaster: older renters living on the edge in Western Australia, Summary report(Housing for the Aged Action Group, 2019) Fiedler, J.; Faulkner, D.; The Wicking TrustThis project has been conducted in light of extensive research that is warning of rapidly increasing housing problems facing older people. The three main factors are: an ageing population, reducing rates of home ownership and significant increases in older people relying on rental accommodation to age-in-place in their later years. The objective of the Project is to increase awareness of older people’s housing issues across Australia, improve older people’s access to affordable housing and ensure better availability of services that can help older people in housing difficulty. More specifically the aims of this project for Western Australia are to: Identify what is the level of homelessness amongst the older population in WA and who is at risk of homelessness in WA; examine the current state policy frameworks that impact on the housing circumstances of older people in WA; identify what are the housing options that currently exist, what are their main characteristics and how do older people apply for them; identify what services are available to help older people access affordable and appropriate housing in WA; propose appropriate recommendations that will lead to a systems reform approach to improve assistance and housing for low income older people.Item Metadata only Finding a suitable home for older people at risk of homelessness in South Australia(Housing for the Aged Action Group and the Centre for Housing, Urban and Regional Planning, 2017) Fiedler, J.; Faulkner, D.; The JO and JR Wicking TrustThis project has been conducted in light of extensive research that is warning of rapidly increasing housing problems facing older people. The three main factors are: an ageing population, reducing rates of home ownership and significant increases in older people relying on rental accommodation to age-in-place in their later years. The objective of the Project is to increase awareness of older people’s housing issues across Australia, improve older people’s access to affordable housing and ensure better availability of services that can help older people in housing difficulty. More specifically the aims of this project for South Australia are to: Identify what is the level of homelessness amongst the older population in SA and who is at risk of homelessness in SA; examine the current state policy frameworks that impact on the housing circumstances of older people in SA; identify what are the housing options that currently exist, what are their main characteristics and how do older people apply for them; identify what services are available to help older people access affordable and appropriate housing in SA; propose appropriate recommendations that will lead to a systems reform approach to improve assistance and housing for low income older people.Item Metadata only "The older I get the scarier it becomes" Older people at risk of homelessness in New South Wales(Housing for the Aged Action Group, 2017) Fiedler, J.; Faulkner, D.; Jo and JR Wicking TrustThis project has been conducted in light of extensive research that is warning of rapidly increasing housing problems facing older people. The three main factors are: an ageing population, reducing rates of home ownership and significant increases in older people relying on rental accommodation to age-in-place in their later years. The objective of the Project is to increase awareness of older people’s housing issues across Australia, improve older people’s access to affordable housing and ensure better availability of services that can help older people in housing difficulty. More specifically the aims of this project for New South Wales are to: Identify what is the level of homelessness amongst the older population in NSW and who is at risk of homelessness in NSW; examine the current state policy frameworks that impact on the housing circumstances of older people in NSW; identify what are the housing options that currently exist, what are their main characteristics and how do older people apply for them; identify what services are available to help older people access affordable and appropriate housing in NSW; propose appropriate recommendations that will lead to a systems reform approach to improve assistance and housing for low income older people.Item Metadata only Housing need and demand assessment: an evaluation and illustrative pilot of the Scottish HNDA tool in the context of Northern Ireland(UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence, 2020) Frey, J.; Leishman, C.M.; McGreal, S.; Young, G.; Department for CommunitiesItem Open Access Waterfront regeneration in Australia: local responses to global trends in re-imagining disused city docklands(Wiley, 2021) Oakley, S.This article applies ideas about critical urban assemblages to understand the planning processes, politics, and delivery of waterfront regeneration from an Australian perspective, drawing on the Port Adelaide waterfront in South Australia as a case study. Waterfront regeneration is associated with global economic deregulation, market-led development, changes to planning regulatory requirements, and “streamlined” governance arrangements. The global spread of waterfront regeneration is an outcome of such processes, with individual waterfronts being “remade” and reimagined to reflect priorities emphasised by those forging urban policies linked to inter-urban competitiveness and neoliberal urbanism. Waterfront developments may be categorised as “models” of success or failure that limit deeper analysis that can advance theory and practice. How such projects reflect interactions across local and global scales rather than just being expressions of global forces is a question often ignored; so, too, are those considering how policy and politics mediate those relationships. Ideas, strategies, capital, people, policy, and politics are dynamic, provisional, and contested, and are produced and assembled in particular ways to suit specific spatiotemporal contexts. On that understanding, the aim of this article is to highlight how the Port Adelaide waterfront is undergoing assembly and reassembly to reflect socioeconomic priorities and metropolitan planning agendas.Item Metadata only Housing and poverty: a longitudinal analysis(Taylor & Francis, 2017) Stephens, M.; Leishman, C.Cross-sectional research suggests that the British housing system weakens the link between income poverty and housing outcomes, but this reveals little about the long-term relationships. We examine the relationship between income poverty and housing pathways over an 18-year period to 2008, and develop consensual approaches to poverty estimation, housing deprivation, and the prevalence of under and over-consumption. We find that chronic poverty is most strongly associated with housing pathways founded in social renting, whereas housing pathways founded in owner-occupation are more strongly associated with temporary poverty. Whilst housing deprivation is disproportionately prevalent among those who experienced chronic poverty, the overwhelming majority of people who experienced chronic poverty avoided housing deprivation. This evidence supports of the notion that the housing system, during this period, weakened the link between poverty and housing deprivation. Therefore it can be characterised as representing a ‘sector regime’ with different distributional tendencies from the wider welfare regime.Item Open Access Assessing the spatial impact of policy interventions on real-estate values: an exemplar of the use of the hybrid hedonic/repeat-sales method(Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017) Leishman, C.; Watkins, C.This paper sets out to make a contribution to the extensive literature that seeks to develop methods that allow rigorous and robust analysis of the spatial and temporal impacts of public policy interventions on property (real-estate) values. It argues that the hybrid repeat-sales/hedonic method developed in realestate studies over the last 30 years has considerable, but as yet under-developed, potential as a policy analysis tool. Using data from Glasgow, UK, the empirical analysis illustrates how the technique can be used to understand the spatial spillovers and the dynamic temporal effects of a historic £100 million state-led, area-based, urban-renewal programme, New Life for Urban Scotland. The paper concludes by arguing that, with the rise in the availability of rich geocoded, micro-datasets, this framework is sufficiently flexible to be used to evaluate the real-estate market impacts of a wide range of public policy interventions. Significantly, as the case study demonstrates, the framework overcomes some of the sustained criticisms of the more commonly used hedonic modelling approach. There is, however, still much to do to enhance the technical qualities of the models through further application.Item Open Access Housing supply and suppliers: are the microeconomics of housing developers important?(Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015) Leishman, C.; Conference on After the Crisis: Housing Policy and Finance in the U.S. and the U.K. (13 Sep 2012 - 14 Sep 2012 : New York, NY)In this paper, I review the US, UK and international literature on the responsiveness of housing supply to demand. This is a well-developed area of the literature, but I put forward two new arguments: that developers face downward sloping demand curves in the housing market, and that housing developers as firms are sufficiently heterogenous that their output decisions cannot be generalised. I draw on the international literature but use the recent UK experience as a lens, arguing that the post Barker review planning policy and housing supply reforms did not yield as much additional housing supply as had been hoped and expected by policy markets and the housing development industry itself. After introducing two specific propositions, I present new statistical estimates that are at least highly suggestive that firm-specific factors are of importance in understanding supply responsiveness.Item Open Access Is Australian housing supply adequate?(Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA), 2017) Leishman, C.; Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA); Yates, J.This chapter looks at the trends in the costs of acquiring land and building on it; the impact of regulation on land availability; and changes in the composition of the housing stock. It questions whether the housing system is designed to add new housing to the market at a slower rate than it's needed, in order to make the housing development and construction market viable.Item Metadata only The experiences of being a young LGBTIQ and homeless in Australia: Re-thinking policy and practice(SAGE Publications, 2018) Oakley, S.; Bletsas, A.Drawing on the perspectives of young lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer (LGBTIQ) people who have experienced homelessness across metropolitan Adelaide and Sydney, Australia, the article outlines many of the challenges and barriers that confronted them. We argue that traditional views in policy and practice that treat homelessness as a homogeneous category are detrimental to this young cohort. With more young people identifying as LGBTIQ, a greater number of them are seeking services, support and housing assistance. Yet, as we highlight, this has had the effect of a shortage of suitable and safe accommodation and support to assist young LGBTIQ people. This shortfall further entrenches marginalisation and exclusion for this young group.Item Restricted Climate change and the future of Australia's country towns(John Wiley & Sons, 2015) Beer, A.; Tually, S.; Kroehn, M.; Martin, J.; Gerritsen, R.; Taylor, M.; Graymore, M.; Law, J.; Palutikof, J.; Boulter, S.; Barnett, J.; Rissik, D.This chapter presents the future of Australia's country towns in the context of anticipated climate change, where it is assumed Australia faces moderate climate change as predicted by the CSIRO's MK3.5 model. It argues that the future of Australia's country towns is not simply a product of climate change and its manifestation in terms of altered rainfall patterns, increased average temperatures and more frequent extreme events. The chapter discusses Australia's country towns within the context of contemporary and anticipated social, economic and climatic trends, before moving on to discuss the estimation of vulnerability within these communities. It describes both the implications for rural communities and the paths potentially available to governments across Australia. The adaptation and future of Australia's country towns is not simply a story of a changing climate and its impacts.Item Restricted Housing economics: A historical approach(Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) Meen, G.; Gibb, K.; Leishman, C.; Nygaard, C.The world has still to emerge fully from the housing-triggered Global Financial Crisis, but housing crises are not new. The history of housing shows long-run social progress, littered with major disasters; nevertheless the progress is often forgotten, whilst the difficulties hit the headlines. Housing Economics provides a long-term economic perspective on macro and urban housing issues, from the Victorian era onwards. A historical perspective sheds light on modern problems and the constraints on what can be achieved; it concentrates on the key policy issues of housing supply, affordability, tenure, the distribution of migrant communities, mortgage markets and household mobility. Local case studies are interwoven with city-wide aggregate analysis. Three sets of issues are addressed: the underlying reasons for the initial establishment of residential neighbourhoods, the processes that generate growth, decline and patterns of integration/segregation, and the impact of historical development on current problems and the implications for policy.Item Metadata only The segregation and isolation of children and young people in the Victorian Juvenile Justice System: rethinking a flawed system: submission to the Inquiry into Youth Justice Centres in Victoria(Parliament of Victoria, 2017) Naylor, B.; Grant, E.; Lulham, R.; Inquiry into Youth Justice Centres in VictoriaItem Restricted Understanding the planning and practice of redeveloping disused docklands using critical urban assemblage as a lens: a case study of Port Adelaide, Australia(Taylor & Francis, 2014) Oakley, S.The Port Adelaide inner harbour, like other waterfront developments nationally and internationally, reflects the bringing together of a range of elements—ideas, policies, people, capital and strategies—in reconfiguring the built form. This preliminary study investigates the utility of applying a concept of critical urban assemblage to understand the planning, processes and delivery of this Australian waterfront redevelopment. The aim is to go beyond situating the redevelopment as a ‘model’ of success or failure, or the sole result of a neo-liberalized urban regeneration paradigm.Item Restricted The predictive performance of multilevel models of housing sub-markets: a comparative analysis(Sage Publications, 2013) Leishman, C.; Costello, G.; Rowley, S.; Watkins, C.Much of the housing sub-market literature has focused on establishing methods that allow the partitioning of data into distinct market segments. This paper seeks to move the focus on to the question of how best to model sub-markets once they have been identified. It focuses on evaluating the effectiveness of multilevel models as a technique for modelling sub-markets. The paper uses data on housing transactions from Perth, Western Australia, to develop and compare three competing sub-market modelling strategies. Model 1 consists of a city-wide ‘benchmark’; model 2 provides a series of sub-market-specific hedonic estimates (this is the ‘industry standard’) and models 3 and 4 provide two variants on the multilevel model (differentiated by variation in the degrees of spatial granularity embedded in the model structure). The results suggest that the more granular multilevel specification enhances empirical performance and reduces the incidence of non-random spatial errors.Item Restricted The impact of population ageing on house prices: a micro-simulation approach(Blackwell Publishing, 2012) Chen, Y.; Gibb, K.; Leishman, C.; Wright, R.This study attempts to estimate the impact of population ageing on house prices. There is considerable debate about whether population ageing puts downwards or upwards pressure on house prices. The empirical approach differs from earlier studies of this relationship, which are mainly regression analyses of macro time-series data. A micro-simulation methodology is adopted that combines a macro-level house price model with a micro-level household formation model. The case study is Scotland, a country that is expected to age rapidly in the future. The parameters of the household formation model are estimated with panel data from the British Household Panel Survey covering the period 1999–2008. The estimates are then used to carry out a set of simulations. The simulations are based on a set of population projections that represent a considerable range in the rate of population ageing. The main finding from the simulations is that population ageing – or more generally changes in age structure – is not likely a main determinant of house prices, at least in Scotland.Item Restricted Housebuilder networks and residential land markets(Sage Publications, 2012) Adams, D.; Leishman, C.; Watkins, C.The commercial prospects of speculative housebuilders depend crucially on successful land acquisitions. This paper presents new evidence revealing the importance housebuilders attach to networks with other important actors in securing future land supplies. Since networks depend on trust, reputation and voluntary collaboration, they indicate the importance of social relations within the industry. The paper argues that UK speculative housebuilders rely more on networks than markets to source land and that they structure those networks to enhance their own competitive positions. Reflecting Granovetter’s belief in the strength of weak ties, the paper emphasises the breadth not depth of housebuilder networks and contends that social relations within the industry are primarily dependent on pragmatic considerations of mutual self-interest.Item Restricted The role of corporate reputation and employees' values in the uptake of energy efficiency in office buildings(Elsevier, 2011) Pellegrini-Masini, G.; Leishman, C.Abstract not available