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Welfare group urges tax on $1m houses - The Age
'The Brotherhood has presented the review with a report it commissioned in which the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute found that exempting the family home from capital gains tax costs $30 billion a year.'
Time to think outside the square block - Sydney Morning Herald
'Research by the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute has identified the improvement in the local community that can come from the activities of community housing groups as the reason for the big shift overseas, where in some countries almost all public housing now is handled by community housing groups.'
$11.4 million for homelessness research
'"We need to understand the impacts of service design and government policy on homelessness within and across State and Commonwealth jurisdictions.” Minister Plibersek also announced a thirty per cent increase in funding, more than $9 million over three years, for the National Housing Research program at the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI).'
Government should bail out borrowers
'Australia Commonwealth and state governments should be assisting borrowers facing mortgage stress, according to a report from the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute.'
Confronting housing inequality - Eureka Street
'The Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute's positioning paper, "Gentrification and Displacement", identifies a complex tangle of factors that can reinforce inequalities during the in-migration of affluent households to poorer and lower value areas of cities like Melbourne and Sydney.'
Public housing a 'dumping ground' - The Australian
'[Professor] Bill Randolph from the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute said a shift in thinking over recent years had led governments to sprinkle smaller public housing facilities throughout cities to create a greater "social mix"...'
Tenants feel pinch as demand and rents soar - Courier Mail
'A research paper by the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute said some renters had been hit with a double whammy...'
Experts divided on housing affordability - ABC News
'Associate Professor Judith Yates from the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) thinks that the new schemes are a "fantastic start" in improving housing affordability, however she says that the problem is "something that's not going to be fixed in one term of government."'
Planning groups welcome housing plan - The Age
'Professor Mike Berry, from the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute at RMIT, said the Government should re-think the way infrastructure was funded in new housing developments, saying an increased supply of land did not necessarily result in affordable housing.'
Dooms day scenario looms - The Sydney Morning Herald
Looking ahead to 2045, the report for the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute says increasing reliance on the private rental market to meet the needs of a growing and ageing population will be unsustainable.
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