TY - JOUR TI - Housing Affordability and Planning in Australia: The Challenge of Policy Under Neo-liberalism AU - Beer, Andrew AU - Kearins, Bridget AU - Pieters, Hans T2 - Housing Studies AB - Housing affordability has once again appeared on the policy agenda of Australian governments. House prices have risen in response to booming demand and constraints on the supply of dwellings, especially a shortage of land in the capital cities and skill shortages within the housing industry. Many young and low-income households have experienced great difficulty in gaining access to homeownership and in being able to afford private rental housing. This paper briefly considers the characteristics of public debate around housing affordability in Australia. It examines the role of neo-liberalism in shaping policy responses to housing affordability problems and assesses the argument that affordability goals can be achieved through manipulation of the planning system. It contends that neo-liberal philosophies of government direct policy action to the planning system, but such strategies have a limited capacity to improve housing affordability. Australian governments need to adopt more effective housing policies if they are to meet the needs of the 700 000 to 1 million households who live in unaffordable housing. DA - 2007/01/01/ PY - 2007 DO - 10.1080/02673030601024572 DP - Taylor and Francis+NEJM VL - 22 IS - 1 SP - 11 EP - 24 SN - 0267-3037 ST - Housing Affordability and Planning in Australia UR - https://doi.org/10.1080/02673030601024572 Y2 - 2023/05/09/01:13:27 KW - Architecture KW - Property ER - TY - CHAP TI - Urban Planning and Indigenous Peoples AU - Nursey-Bray, Melissa AU - Beer, Andrew T2 - The Routledge Handbook of Australian Urban and Regional Planning A2 - Sipe, Neil A2 - Vella, Karen DA - 2017/// PY - 2017 DP - https://cat2.lib.unimelb.edu.au:443/record=b6449659~S30 SP - 277 EP - 292 PB - Routledge SN - 1-315-74805-3 UR - https://cat2.lib.unimelb.edu.au:443/record=b6449659~S30 KW - Urban planning ER -