Affordable Housing

Julian Disney

“Affordable housing of a reasonable standard is crucial to a country and its people. Without it, people are impoverished, families and communities eroded, jobs lost, the economy weakened and the environment damaged. Australia is facing a creeping crisis of housing affordability, often accompanied by deteriorating transport systems and poor urban planning.

Housing affordability has worsened alarmingly during the last 15 years or so. Average house prices have risen almost twice as much as household incomes, even though those incomes have risen faster than general inflation in the economy …”