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Tang, Pui-yee Connie. "Residential satisfaction in community housing, South Australia /." Title page,contents and abstract only, 1995. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09art164.pdf.
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Hutchinson, Matthew James. "Housing for an ageing Australia: What next?" Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2019. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/134162/1/Matthew_Hutchinson_Thesis.pdf.
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Within the policy context of ageing-in-place aspirations, this thesis examines the potential nature of housing for Australia's ageing population. By conceptualising housing and support together as an ecology and using grounded theory methodology to involve relevant stakeholders the thesis reveals both the desire and need for new urban and suburban based housing typologies arranged around collective living and mutual support. It further proposes a performance brief comprising desirable housing design principles. The thesis makes a contribution theoretically to the fields of architecture and critical gerontology.
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Winnett, Richard G. "The housing circumstances and preferences of elderly Australian veterans and war-widow(er)s." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 1998. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/27564.
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This study set out to re—examine some of the assumptions behind Australia’s current housing policies. It is the first empirical Australian study which specifically addresses the housing circumstances and preferences of veterans and war-widow(er)s. Around 23% of Australian males and 7% of Australian females aged 65 or over are veterans or war-widows.
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Stewart, Geoff D. "Welfare aspects of commercial poultry housing in Australia /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2005. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe18975.pdf.
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Paris, Chris. "Social theory and housing policy." Phd thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/130120.
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Lacroix, Carol Josephine. "The politics of need : accounting for (dis)advantage : public housing co-operatives in Western Australia /." Access via Murdoch University Digital Theses Project, 2006. https://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20080411.150027.
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Grant, Elizabeth Maree. "Aboriginal housing in remote South Australia : an overview of housing at Oak Valley, Maralinga Tjarutja Lands /." Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 1999. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ENV/09envg7611.pdf.
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Stapledon, Nigel David Economics Australian School of Business UNSW. "Long term housing prices in Australia and some economic perspectives." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of Economics, 2007. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/29488.
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This thesis constructs, principally from primary sources, a long term time series for house and land prices for Sydney and Melbourne, and house price and rental yield series for Australia. These new series span the period 1880-1965 and give an historical perspective beyond the period from 1970 for which existing house price time series begin for Australia and for most of the world. The price series indicates that the modern experience (i.e. since the 1970s) of a significant upward trend in real prices differs markedly from the experience in the first half of the 20th century when house prices moved very little. The thesis then takes several approaches to explaining the apparent shift in direction in the mid 20th century. The first approach examines house prices in terms of demand and supply variables. Urban theory says that demographic and income factors are critical. However, assessed over this long time span, these demand factors do not offer a satisfactory explanation. Additionally, it is found that there is no cointegrating relationship between prices and income. Rather, it appears that supply factors have probably been the pivotal influence in explaining the shift in direction, consistent with a growing literature which focuses on the role of regulation and other constraints on supply. In Australia???s case, government policies imposing capital contributions on the cost of land appear to be a major factor. The second approach taken is to view housing in terms of asset pricing as more typically applied to the equity market by Campbell and Shiller (1988) and others. A central debate is whether or not there has been a structural fall in the equity yield and given the parallel fall in the house yield, this question is posed for housing. The thesis finds that tax and other factors can explain a structural decline in the housing yield. The house rental yield appears to be a better predictor of future rental growth and a negative predictor of future returns.
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Ward, Margaret L. "Inclusive housing in Australia : a question of responsibility and distributive justice." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2013. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/63493/1/Margaret_Ward_Thesis.pdf.
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This thesis challenged the assumption that the Australian housing industry will voluntarily and independently transform its practices to build inclusive communities. Through its focus on perceptions of responsibility and the development of a theoretical framework for voluntary initiatives, the thesis offers key stakeholders and advocates a way to work towards the provision of inclusive housing as an instrument of distributive justice.
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Earl, William George. "Alternative housing choices at benchmark affordability levels by 'TEIRM' tenure." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1995.
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Mikhailitchenko, Serguei, and na. "The Australian Housing Market: Price Dynamics and Capital Stock Growth." Griffith University. Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics, 2008. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20100729.074134.
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This study was motivated by the desire to contribute to the understanding of the movement of house prices and the role of the so-called economic fundamentals in the housing market, especially within an Australian context. The core objective of this thesis is to aid understanding of the economic and other mechanisms by which the Australian housing market operates. We do this by constructing an analytical framework, or model, that encompasses the most important characteristics of the housing market. This thesis examines two important aspects of the Australian housing market: movements of house prices and changes in the net capital stock of dwellings in Australia. Movements of house prices are modelled from two perspectives: firstly, using the fundamental approach, which explains the phenomena by changes in such fundamental explanatory variables as income, interest rates, population and prices of building materials, and secondly, by analysing spatial interdependence of house prices in Australian capital cities. Changes in stock of dwellings were also modelled on the basis of a fundamental approach by states and for Australia as a whole...
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Mikhailitchenko, Serguei. "The Australian Housing Market: Price Dynamics and Capital Stock Growth." Thesis, Griffith University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/365673.
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This study was motivated by the desire to contribute to the understanding of the movement of house prices and the role of the so-called economic ‘fundamentals’ in the housing market, especially within an Australian context. The core objective of this thesis is to aid understanding of the economic and other mechanisms by which the Australian housing market operates. We do this by constructing an analytical framework, or model, that encompasses the most important characteristics of the housing market. This thesis examines two important aspects of the Australian housing market: movements of house prices and changes in the net capital stock of dwellings in Australia. Movements of house prices are modelled from two perspectives: firstly, using the ‘fundamental’ approach, which explains the phenomena by changes in such ‘fundamental’ explanatory variables as income, interest rates, population and prices of building materials, and secondly, by analysing spatial interdependence of house prices in Australian capital cities. Changes in stock of dwellings were also modelled on the basis of a ‘fundamental’ approach by states and for Australia as a whole.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics
Griffith Business School
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Spivak, Gary, and gspivak@portphillip vic gov au. "Sharing the responsibility : the role of developer contributions in the provision of lower income housing in California and its implications for Victoria." Swinburne University of Technology. Department of Sociology, 1999. http://adt.lib.swin.edu.au./public/adt-VSWT20051205.091306.
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This thesis investigates the relevance and transferability of developer contributed affordable housing in the USA as an alternative method of funding and delivering affordable housing in Australia.
Local Government, the vehicle for the delivery, is explored because of its central role in co-ordinating developer contributed affordable housing in the USA; and because its role in both counties as both the planning authority and a potential provider or facilitator of community housing.
Additionally, the nature and role of community based housing providers in the USA is considered important in maintaining the purpose of developer contributed affordable housing and also expanding the size of the community housing sector.
The thesis investigated developer contribution policies and programs in four Californian municipalities: San Francisco, Santa Monica, Los Angeles and San Diego. This State and these cities have established some of the most well developed programs of this type in the USA.
The investigation included controls and incentives, both mutually reinforcing, used in these Californian programs as well as operational program factors which led to their success. These were contrasted with Australian conditions to determine the relevance and transferability of the US experience.
A central conclusion was that the US developer contribution programs had limited relevance and transferability to Australia for a number of reasons. These reasons include the divergent roles, track records and legal powers of local government in the USA and Australia in planning and housing provision or facilitation; contrasting legislative frameworks and nature of housing developers between the two countries; and the lack of an imperative in Australia to develop alternatives to centrally provided public housing systems which is in contrast to the USA.
Consequently, the value of the US experience was that their particularly successful and problematic aspects of developer contributed housing programs and community housing arrangements would develop a useful context for an Australian model.
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Sharp, Roma. "A history of public housing in Western Australia: The workers' homes board and state housing commission: Precursors of Homeswest." Thesis, Sharp, Roma (1993) A history of public housing in Western Australia: The workers' homes board and state housing commission: Precursors of Homeswest. Honours thesis, Murdoch University, 1993. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/41517/.
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Public housing in Australia and elsewhere has been, until recently, a neglected area of historical research. The social importance of housing is undeniable and, as such, a history of public housing in Western Australia is well overdue.
This history of public housing in Western Australia is essentially an examination of two organisations: the Workers' Homes Board, established in 1912, and its post-World War II successor, the State Housing Commisson, since 1985 trading as Homeswest. The thesis is not so much an institutional history as an account of the key factors which shaped the nature of public housing in this State: demand for workforce housing by industry; demand for housing from people with low incomes; and the need for the state to encourage population and economic growth. Material factors, particularly in the immediate post-World War II period, have also impacted on the provision of public housing, as has the physical size and climatic variation of the State.
This thesis provides evidence of the use of public housing as an instrument for social control in Western Australia, which is associated with the notion of housing as a reward, rather than a right. However, evidence is also provided to demonstrate that the policies and activities of both the Workers' Homes Board and the State Housing Commission were shaped by the agency of their clients, as well as by community values and opinions.
The state's role in the provision of public housing m Western Australia has been found to have been largely positive. It has contributed to economic growth and resource development, provided infrastructure to attract industry, attracted migrants in the post war period with the promise of housing, and collaborated with other governments to decentralise a Perth-based bureaucracy. Most significantly, it has provided affordable housing for the State's low income earners and their families.
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Wood, G. A. "The taxation of owner-occupied housing in Australia: Affordability and distributional issues." Thesis, Wood, G.A. (1995) The taxation of owner-occupied housing in Australia: Affordability and distributional issues. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 1995. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/51195/.
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This thesis examines the impacts of Local, State and Federal Government tax treatment of owner-occupied housing. The central concerns are impacts on the affordability of home ownership, and the formal distribution of tax liabilities. The ABS 1990 Survey of Income, Housing Costs and Amenities is employed to conduct empirical investigations into these issues. A user cost of capital approach is invoked to measure the effective annual costs of home owners, and a distinction is drawn between the user cost of marginal and existing investments in owner-occupied housing.
We find that Local Government rates and State Government stamp duties have a regressive incidence. They make a marginal contribution to the effective annual costs of home owners, but a more significant contribution to the acquisition costs of home purchasers. These tax measures in conjunction with the Federal exemption of home owners' imputed net rents, ensure a vertically inequitable pattern to the distribution of home owners' effective annual costs.
A novel feature of the thesis is the simulation of the effects of a revenue neutral tax reform package on tax burdens and housing costs. The tax reforms involve the replacement of rates and stamp duties by the taxation of owner-occupiers' imputed net rents, where the latter are arrived at by applying a multiplier yield to home owners' equity holdings. The multiplier yield is set at a value which ensures that additional revenues offset the revenue losses from the abolition of rates and stamp duties. The tax reform package produces a progressive re-distribution of the tax burden and reduces the variation in home owners' effective annual costs. The thesis is concluded by a consideration of the practical issues associated with implementation of the proposed tax reforms.
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Barton, John Edward Built Environment Faculty of Built Environment UNSW. "A spatial decision support system for the management of public housing." Awarded by:University of New South Wales, 2007. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/35209.
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Nguyen, Viet Huong. "Dimensions of sustainability : case study of new housing in Adelaide and Hanoi /." Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 2004. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phn5765.pdf.
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Stratford, Elisabeth Elaine. "Construction sites : creating the feminine, the home and nature in Australian discources on health /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1995. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phs898.pdf.
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Costello, Greg. "Price discovery and information diffusion in the Perth housing market 1988-2000." UWA Business School, 2004. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2005.0034.
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[Truncated abstract] This thesis examines informational efficiency and price discovery processes within the Perth housing market for the period 1988-2000 by utilising a rich source of Western Australian Valuer General’s Office (VGO) data. Fama’s (1970) classification of market efficiency as potentially weak form, semi-strong, or strong form has been a dominant paradigm in tests of market efficiency in many asset markets. While there are some parallels, the results of tests in this thesis suggest there are also limitations in applying this paradigm to housing markets. The institutional structure of housing markets dictates that a deeper recognition of important housing market characteristics is required. Efficiency in housing markets is desirable in that if prices provide accurate signals for purchase or disposition of real estate assets this will facilitate the correct allocation of scarce financial resources for housing services. The theory of efficient markets suggests that it is desirable for information diffusion processes in a large aggregate housing market to facilitate price corrections. In an efficient housing market, these processes can be observed and will enable housing units to be exchanged with an absence of market failure in all price and location segments. Throughout this thesis there is an emphasis on disaggregation of the Perth housing market both by price and location criteria. Results indicate that the Perth housing market is characterised by varying levels of informational inefficiency in both price and location segments and there are some important pricing-size influences.
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Secomb, Dorothy Margaret School of Social Science & Policy UNSW. "Retirement in Mobile and Manufactured Housing on the North Coast of New South Wales, Australia." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of Social Science and Policy, 2000. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/17488.
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This study considers relocatable homes as an alternative housing choice for male and female retirees fifty years of age and over. Homogeneous parks and estates planned for a specific type of relocatable home are compared with those which evolved from tourist parks and retain sites for both permanent and short-term occupancy. Four relocatable home environments are considered: caravan parks, mobile homes in mixed parks, manufactured homes in mixed parks and manufactured housing estates. The differential effects of 'age', 'house type' and 'housing environment' upon 'residential satisfaction', 'sense of community within the neighbourhood', 'social integration in the community' and 'psychological adjustment' form the analytical framework of the study. Residents of 34 parks/ estates on the North Coast of New South Wales completed 778 questionnaires. Case studies, interviews, letters and written comments provided data for qualitative analysis. Approximately 94% of respondents are satisfied with their homes and housing environments. Residential satisfaction is most influenced by the interactions and perceptions of residents; psychological adjustment is influenced by a positive attitudes towards self and one's neighbours; integration in the community is affected by levels of network. Each of these relate strongly with having a sense of community in the neighbourhood. Space internal to the dwelling relates to satisfaction, adjustment and community integration. External space relates to the need for a well planned neighbourhood which affords privacy, safety and amenities. The need for meeting places for small and large groups was recurrent. The results suggest that residents of relocatable homes tend to retain affiliation with organisations joined prior to relocation. They are not reliant on their new neighbours to integrate in their community. This result is contrary to prior research which studied site built homes and traditional neighbourhoods. The present high levels of residential satisfaction would rise if it were not for the overwhelming uncertainty of tenure and unjustifiable rises in site rent. The study reviews government policy especially in relation to tenure. A relocatable home offers no more affordability than a site-built home in the same area in the long-term but it does offer a preferred retirement lifestyle.
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au, C. Lacroix@murdoch edu, and Carol Lacroix. "The politics of need accounting for (dis)advantage: public housing co-operatives in Western Australia." Murdoch University, 2007. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20080411.150027.
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Concerns about the nature of poverty and how to achieve equitable resource distribution are rife in Australia where, as elsewhere, welfare resources are becoming increasingly scarce. At the heart of these concerns are questions about access: in particular, how to ensure that the least affluent are able to access the resources they require. At the same time, there is a growing sense that cultural as well as social factors are central to patterns of unequal distribution, especially in a neo-liberal context where there is a deregulation of social and economic structures, and a shift to consumption or lifestyle capitalism.
This thesis employs Bourdieus theoretical framework of capitals to examine the nature of affluence (and therefore poverty) in Australia, the processes that facilitate access to material resources by the affluent rather than the poor and, ultimately, the notion of need that underpins questions of choice, access and resource allocation. Drawing on interviews with members of publicly funded housing co-operatives in WA, an example of welfare housing that simultaneously represents an example of a deregulated symbolic economy and an expression of the contemporary lifestyle movement, I highlight key resources and interests that distinguish these individuals as affluent, as well as some of the cultural and social processes that enable them to convert their resources into the subsidised housing. Based on this analysis, I then interrogate the frameworks for understanding poverty that regulate the distribution of welfare resources, and argue that these were central to the ability of the more affluent to secure publicly funded housing resources. In particular, I examine the new multidimensional frameworks for understanding poverty in terms of their ability to recognise key resources and processes.
I argue that Bourdieus framework as a resource based framework that accounts for cultural as well as social and economic factors in the (re)production of advantage and disadvantage represents a worthwhile inclusion into theories and policies that are concerned with accounting for poverty and ensuring that residual welfare aims are met.
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Lacroix, Carol. "The politics of need accounting for (dis)advantage: public housing co-operatives in Western Australia." Thesis, Lacroix, Carol (2007) The politics of need accounting for (dis)advantage: public housing co-operatives in Western Australia. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2007. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/142/.
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Concerns about the nature of poverty and how to achieve equitable resource distribution are rife in Australia where, as elsewhere, welfare resources are becoming increasingly scarce. At the heart of these concerns are questions about access: in particular, how to ensure that the least affluent are able to access the resources they require. At the same time, there is a growing sense that cultural as well as social factors are central to patterns of unequal distribution, especially in a neo-liberal context where there is a deregulation of social and economic structures, and a shift to consumption or lifestyle capitalism.
This thesis employs Bourdieu's theoretical framework of capitals to examine the nature of affluence (and therefore poverty) in Australia, the processes that facilitate access to material resources by the affluent rather than the poor and, ultimately, the notion of need that underpins questions of choice, access and resource allocation. Drawing on interviews with members of publicly funded housing co-operatives in WA, an example of welfare housing that simultaneously represents an example of a deregulated symbolic economy and an expression of the contemporary lifestyle movement, I highlight key resources and interests that distinguish these individuals as affluent, as well as some of the cultural and social processes that enable them to convert their resources into the subsidised housing. Based on this analysis, I then interrogate the frameworks for understanding poverty that regulate the distribution of welfare resources, and argue that these were central to the ability of the more affluent to secure publicly funded housing resources. In particular, I examine the new multidimensional frameworks for understanding poverty in terms of their ability to recognise key resources and processes.
I argue that Bourdieu's framework - as a resource based framework that accounts for cultural as well as social and economic factors in the (re)production of advantage and disadvantage - represents a worthwhile inclusion into theories and policies that are concerned with accounting for poverty and ensuring that residual welfare aims are met.
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Lacroix, Carol. "The politics of need accounting for (dis)advantage: public housing co-operatives in Western Australia." Lacroix, Carol (2007) The politics of need accounting for (dis)advantage: public housing co-operatives in Western Australia. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2007. http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/142/.
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Concerns about the nature of poverty and how to achieve equitable resource distribution are rife in Australia where, as elsewhere, welfare resources are becoming increasingly scarce. At the heart of these concerns are questions about access: in particular, how to ensure that the least affluent are able to access the resources they require. At the same time, there is a growing sense that cultural as well as social factors are central to patterns of unequal distribution, especially in a neo-liberal context where there is a deregulation of social and economic structures, and a shift to consumption or lifestyle capitalism.
This thesis employs Bourdieu's theoretical framework of capitals to examine the nature of affluence (and therefore poverty) in Australia, the processes that facilitate access to material resources by the affluent rather than the poor and, ultimately, the notion of need that underpins questions of choice, access and resource allocation. Drawing on interviews with members of publicly funded housing co-operatives in WA, an example of welfare housing that simultaneously represents an example of a deregulated symbolic economy and an expression of the contemporary lifestyle movement, I highlight key resources and interests that distinguish these individuals as affluent, as well as some of the cultural and social processes that enable them to convert their resources into the subsidised housing. Based on this analysis, I then interrogate the frameworks for understanding poverty that regulate the distribution of welfare resources, and argue that these were central to the ability of the more affluent to secure publicly funded housing resources. In particular, I examine the new multidimensional frameworks for understanding poverty in terms of their ability to recognise key resources and processes.
I argue that Bourdieu's framework - as a resource based framework that accounts for cultural as well as social and economic factors in the (re)production of advantage and disadvantage - represents a worthwhile inclusion into theories and policies that are concerned with accounting for poverty and ensuring that residual welfare aims are met.
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Zedan, Sherif Mohamed Mahmoud Lashen. "The role of stakeholder management in energy efficiency outcomes of owner-occupied housing in Australia." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2018. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/117965/9/Sherif%20Mohamed%20Mahmoud%20Lashen%20Zedan%20Thesis.pdf.
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This thesis highlights the importance of stakeholders' interactions in enhancing the energy efficiency of housing. It uses stakeholder management as a frame work to quantify the influence of stakeholders on energy efficiency outcomes. This framework is applied and tested on a number of owner-occupied housing in Australia to analyse the effect of stakeholders' attributes (such as their roles, responsibilities, and interests) on the energy performance of houses.
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Greenhalgh, Emma. "Principal place of residence? : long term caravan park residents in rural Australia." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2003. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/16706/1/Emma_Greenhalgh_Thesis.pdf.
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This thesis explores the importance of caravan parks as a provider of long term housing in rural areas. Previous research on caravan parks in the Australian housing system focused on the metropolitan and coastal regions, with little analysis given over to parks in rural areas. There is a similar dearth of research on rural housing in Australia. In previous housing studies rural housing has been discussed as a residual of that in the capital cities. In many instances, rural areas are absorbed into broader metropolitan/non-metropolitan constructs. This is despite the complexity and range of housing issues in rural places. This research has brought these two fields together, particularly to determine whether the problems in the rural housing market are a factor for people living in caravan parks. Previous studies on caravan parks have demonstrated that caravan park residents have socio-economic characteristics that would make it difficult for them to access housing. They have low incomes, a reliance on government benefits and higher mobility rates compared to the general population. Caravan park residents have a greater propensity to poverty. Thus for these residents, caravan parks offer housing that is affordable and accessible. In many instances it is housing of last resort, or housing used in times of crisis. Previous research into rural housing has found that rural areas have greater incidences of after housing poverty as a result of lower incomes. There are also problems of housing accessibility, particularly for specific groups, such as the aged, youth, and the disabled. Rural areas also are encountering the migration of 'urban refugees'. This group has high levels of need which creates a further strain on a market. The Shires of Chinchilla and Murilla in Queensland were selected as case studies because they they have a stable caravan park industry and they are rural without being remote. Interviews were undertaken with a variety of individuals representing a range of organisations. This included a large sample of long-term caravan park residents. The residents who participated in the research were, similarly to the general profile of park residents, disadvantaged. They also had low incomes with a reliance on government benefits. The majority of the residents had located to the case study region from the South-East of the State. It was also found that the majority of residents migrated to the area and immediately moved into a caravan park. Interestingly, there were no family households in the park, and very few young people. Also, caravan parks were not utilised as crisis accommodation. This is attributed to the discriminatory practices of the park operators as a form of 'risk management'. This research found that caravan parks play an important role in the housing system of rural areas. Specifically, they are not a residual form of the dominant tenures, but are a separate component of the housing market. Many residents did not consider the broader housing market, and immediately moved into the park. Residents did not explicitly consider their housing choice within the context of the broader market. While housing related issues did arise, the majority of residents individualised their experiences; that is, their housing experience is related to their own individual situation and not because of any problems in the market.
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Greenhalgh, Emma. "Principal Place of Residence? Long Term Caravan Park Residents in Rural Australia." Queensland University of Technology, 2003. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16706/.
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This thesis explores the importance of caravan parks as a provider of long term housing in rural areas. Previous research on caravan parks in the Australian housing system focused on the metropolitan and coastal regions, with little analysis given over to parks in rural areas. There is a similar dearth of research on rural housing in Australia. In previous housing studies rural housing has been discussed as a residual of that in the capital cities. In many instances, rural areas are absorbed into broader metropolitan/non-metropolitan constructs. This is despite the complexity and range of housing issues in rural places. This research has brought these two fields together, particularly to determine whether the problems in the rural housing market are a factor for people living in caravan parks. Previous studies on caravan parks have demonstrated that caravan park residents have socio-economic characteristics that would make it difficult for them to access housing. They have low incomes, a reliance on government benefits and higher mobility rates compared to the general population. Caravan park residents have a greater propensity to poverty. Thus for these residents, caravan parks offer housing that is affordable and accessible. In many instances it is housing of last resort, or housing used in times of crisis. Previous research into rural housing has found that rural areas have greater incidences of after housing poverty as a result of lower incomes. There are also problems of housing accessibility, particularly for specific groups, such as the aged, youth, and the disabled. Rural areas also are encountering the migration of 'urban refugees'. This group has high levels of need which creates a further strain on a market. The Shires of Chinchilla and Murilla in Queensland were selected as case studies because they they have a stable caravan park industry and they are rural without being remote. Interviews were undertaken with a variety of individuals representing a range of organisations. This included a large sample of long-term caravan park residents. The residents who participated in the research were, similarly to the general profile of park residents, disadvantaged. They also had low incomes with a reliance on government benefits. The majority of the residents had located to the case study region from the South-East of the State. It was also found that the majority of residents migrated to the area and immediately moved into a caravan park. Interestingly, there were no family households in the park, and very few young people. Also, caravan parks were not utilised as crisis accommodation. This is attributed to the discriminatory practices of the park operators as a form of 'risk management'. This research found that caravan parks play an important role in the housing system of rural areas. Specifically, they are not a residual form of the dominant tenures, but are a separate component of the housing market. Many residents did not consider the broader housing market, and immediately moved into the park. Residents did not explicitly consider their housing choice within the context of the broader market. While housing related issues did arise, the majority of residents individualised their experiences; that is, their housing experience is related to their own individual situation and not because of any problems in the market.
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Monro, Dugald. "The results of federalism an examination of housing and disability services /." Connect to full text, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/493.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sydney, 2002.Title from title screen (viewed 15 April 2008). Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Discipline of Government and International Relations, School of Economics and Politics, Faculty of Economics and Business. Degree awarded 2002; thesis submitted 2001. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print form.
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Schindeler, Emily Martha. "A genealogy of the problematic of homelessness and the homeless in Australia." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2010. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/32068/1/Emily_Schindeler_Thesis.pdf.
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The homeless have been subject to considerable scrutiny, historically and within current social, political and public discourse. The aetiology of homelessness has been the focus of a large body of economic, sociological, historical and political investigation. Importantly, efforts to conceptualise, explain and measure, the phenomenon of homelessness and homeless people has occurred largely within the context of defining “the problem of the homeless” and the generation of solutions to the ‘problem’. There has been little consideration of how and why homelessness has come to be seen, or understood, as a problem, or how this can change across time and/or place. This alternative stream of research has focused on tracing and analysing the relationship between how people experiencing homeless have become a matter of government concern and the manner in which homelessness itself has been problematised. With this in mind this study has analysed the discourses - political, social and economic rationalities and knowledges - which have provided the conditions of possibility for the identification of the homeless and homelessness as a problem needing to be governed and the means for translating these discourses into the applied domain. The aim of this thesis has been to contribute to current knowledge by developing a genealogy of the conditions and rationalities that have underpinned the problematisation of homelessness and the homeless. The outcome of this analysis has been to open up the opportunity to consider alternative governmental possibilities arising from the exposure of the way in which contemporary problematisation and responses have been influenced by the past. An understanding of this process creates an ability to appreciate the intended and unintended consequences for the future direction of public policy and contemporary research.
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Dufty, Rae School of Biological Earth & Environmental Sciences UNSW. "Rethinking the politics of distribution: the geographies and governmentalities of housing assistance in rural New South Wales, Australia." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, 2007. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/31460.
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Housing, while a necessity of ???life???, goes beyond this definition in this research to also become a technology of government in the domestic distributional geopolitics of nation-states. Employing a Foucaultian approach to power and governance, this research examines how the provision of housing assistance was used in the government of rural public housing communities. Data for this research were collected through a series of archival resources that focused specifically on the transitional periods of 1935-1955 and 1985-2005. Data were also gathered through a questionnaire and interviews with public housing tenants and staff from four towns (Griffith, Cootamundra, Junee and Tumut) in the ???Riverina??? region of south-western New South Wales (NSW), Australia. This research makes five contributions to geographical understandings of distributional politics. First, the thesis contends that poststructuralist theoretical approaches to the analysis of power and governance enable innovative critical engagements with the distributional geopolitical agendas of governmental processes. The research also found that the distributional geopolitical agendas of Governments have been pursued through more than just the redistribution of fiscal resources, but also include the redistribution of human resources. In particular, housing assistance has been, and is used today, to perpetuate certain internal migration patterns to aid this human-distributional agenda. Third, the study argues that ??? while the broad shift to advanced liberal forms of government have resulted in changes to how distributional geopolitical agendas are pursued ??? ???distribution??? remains an integral feature of the geopolitical objectives of those who seek to govern in advanced liberal ways. This work also shows how these new advanced liberal distributional objectives remain open to being problematised and/or resisted at the local scale. However, while such governmental processes are always uncertain and open to contestation, these changes have brought about a new set of ethical and political consequences. We need to be alert to and critical of the ways in which these new distributional geopolitical agendas impact on our own and others??? ???freedoms???.
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Bryant, Lyndall Elaine. "Who really pays for urban infrastructure? : the impact of developer infrastructure charges on housing affordability in Brisbane, Australia." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2015. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/81348/1/Lyndall_Bryant_Thesis.pdf.
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This thesis advances the understanding of the impact of developer infrastructure charges on housing affordability in Brisbane, Australia through the development of an econometric model and empirical analysis. The results indicate substantial on-passing of these government charges to purchasers of both new and existing homes, thus negatively impacting housing affordability across the whole community. The results of this thesis will inform policy makers and assist in the development of evidence based policy related to housing affordability and funding of urban infrastructure. Being generic, the econometric model is expected to be a tool that is suitable for estimating similar house price effects in other housing markets.
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Newman, Sheila, and smnaesp@alphalink com au. "The growth lobby and its absence the relationship between the property development and housing industries and immigration policy in Australia and France." Swinburne University of Technology, 2002. http://adt.lib.swin.edu.au./public/adt-VSWT20060710.144805.
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This thesis compares population policy and demographic outcomes in France and Australia from 1945 taking into consideration projections to 2050. These features are analysed using a theoretical approach derived from James Q. Wilson and Gary Freeman, flagging focused benefits/costs and diffuse benefits/costs of population growth, including growth fueled by immigration. This analysis is framed by the New Ecological Paradigm developed by Dunlap and Catton.
The oil shock of 1973 is identified as a major turning point where French and Australian policy directions and demographic trends diverge, notably on immigration.
It is established that in both countries there was a will for population stabilisation and energy conservation, which succeeded in France. In Australia, however, a strong, organised growth lobby over-rode this Malthusian tendency. A major force for growth lay in the speculative property development and housing industries. The specific qualities of the Australian land development planning and housing system facilitated land speculation. Speculative opportunity and profits were increased by population growth and, with decreasing fertility rates, the industries concerned relied increasingly on high immigration rates. In France, to the contrary, the land development planning and housing industries had no similar dependency on immigration and, since the oil shock, have adapted to a declining population growth rate.
The author concludes that France has a relatively Malthusian economy and that Australia has a relatively Cornucopian one. These observations may be extrapolated respectively to non-English speaking Western European States and to English Speaking Settler States.
Speculative benefits from population growth/immigration are illustrated by demonstrating a relationship between ratcheting property price inflation in high overseas immigration cities in Australia and the near absence of this inflation in low growth areas. In contrast this ratcheting effect is absent in France and French cities where population growth and immigration have little influence on the property market.
The research suggests that speculative benefits of high population growth have been magnified by globalisation of the property market and that these rising stakes are likely to increase the difficulty of population stabilisation and energy conservation under the Australian land development and planning system.
The thesis contains a substantial appendix analysing and comparing French and Australian demographic and energy use statistics.
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Serov, Ilya. "Three Essays on Household Debt and Aggregate Economic Activity." Thesis, University of Sydney, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/23513.
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This thesis investigates the relationships between household balance sheets, credit conditions and aggregate economic activity. It is motivated by the increasing importance, both theoretically and in policy formulation, of better understanding the extent to which high household debt burdens represent a macroeconomic vulnerability. The thesis presents empirical evidence on three related research questions in an Australian context. First, it analyses Australian household survey data and examines the relationship between household debt and consumption expenditures. It concludes that the relationship is broadly negative, implying that highly indebted households reduce their spending in subsequent periods. It also concludes that there are significant heterogeneities in the effects of household leverage on consumptions, both in terms of heterogenous effects of high debt burdens, and among different population groups. Secondly, the thesis evaluates the impact of shifting credit conditions on the way Australian households shape their balance sheets. It utilises both survey data and data based on independent expert judgment as a measure of prevalent credit conditions to find strong evidence that Australian households tend to move their balance sheets towards an ‘optimum’ debt- and liquid asset- ratio level. In addition, evidence is uncovered that changes to household liquid asset holdings are negatively correlated with the degree of development of mortgage markets, suggesting that in a more developed institutional setting, households tend to hold lower levels of liquid assets. Thirdly, the thesis includes an investigation of the relative importance of credit conditions and consumer beliefs in explaining fluctuations in the housing market. Employing a non-linear interacted VAR model, it shows that shifts in consumer beliefs about the housing market have asymmetric effects: the effects are much stronger during time of tight credit availability. The thesis sheds additional light on recent theoretical debates regarding the relative importance of household debt, consumer beliefs and credit conditions.
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Arthurson, Kathy. "Social exclusion as a policy framework for the regeneration of Australian public housing estates /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 2001. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09pha791.pdf.
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Dias, De Carvalho Raul Antonio. "Courtyard housing as a subtropical urban design model." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2015. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/90051/10/Raul%20Antonio%20Dias%20de%20Carvalho%20Exegesis.pdf.
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Through both theory and practice, this practice-based research develops and tests the idea that courtyard housing can deliver sustainable, compact housing in rapidly growing subtropical cities. It proposes a contemporary urban design model that incorporates urban design courtyard housing prototypes. These prototypes can be further developed by architects and urban designers for similar climatic conditions across the world.
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Balnave, Nikola Robyn. "Industrial Welfarism in Australia 1890-1965." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/572.
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This thesis examines industrial welfarism in Australia from 1890 to 1965. This period witnessed the gradual spread of the welfarism movement throughout Australian industry as employers sought ways to increase productivity and control in the face of external challenges. Once reaching its peak in the immediate post-War period, the welfarism movement was gradually subsumed as part of the increasing formalisation of personnel management. Waves of interest in welfare provision coincided with periods of labour shortage and/or labour militancy in Australia, indicating its dual role in the management of labour. Firstly, by offering benefits and services beyond that made necessary by the law or industrial awards, welfarism was designed to create a pool of good quality workers for management to draw from. Secondly, managers sought to enhance their control over these workers and their productive effort, using welfarism as a technique to build worker consent to managerial authority. This could be achieved through subtle methods aimed at boosting loyalty and morale, or through more direct programs designed to increase worker dependency on the company. In both ways, individual and collective worker resistance could be minimised, thereby reinforcing managerial prerogative. Despite its adoption by a variety of companies, a number of economic, political and institutional factors limited the extent of industrial welfarism in Australia. These include the small-scale of most enterprises prior to the Second World War, state involvement in the area of industrial relations and welfare provision, and the strength of organised labour. While the welfarism movement did not reach the heights experienced overseas, it nonetheless provided an important contribution to the development of formal labour management in Australia.
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Balnave, Nikola Robyn. "Industrial Welfarism in Australia 1890-1965." University of Sydney. Work and Organisational Studies, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/572.
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This thesis examines industrial welfarism in Australia from 1890 to 1965. This period witnessed the gradual spread of the welfarism movement throughout Australian industry as employers sought ways to increase productivity and control in the face of external challenges. Once reaching its peak in the immediate post-War period, the welfarism movement was gradually subsumed as part of the increasing formalisation of personnel management. Waves of interest in welfare provision coincided with periods of labour shortage and/or labour militancy in Australia, indicating its dual role in the management of labour. Firstly, by offering benefits and services beyond that made necessary by the law or industrial awards, welfarism was designed to create a pool of good quality workers for management to draw from. Secondly, managers sought to enhance their control over these workers and their productive effort, using welfarism as a technique to build worker consent to managerial authority. This could be achieved through subtle methods aimed at boosting loyalty and morale, or through more direct programs designed to increase worker dependency on the company. In both ways, individual and collective worker resistance could be minimised, thereby reinforcing managerial prerogative. Despite its adoption by a variety of companies, a number of economic, political and institutional factors limited the extent of industrial welfarism in Australia. These include the small-scale of most enterprises prior to the Second World War, state involvement in the area of industrial relations and welfare provision, and the strength of organised labour. While the welfarism movement did not reach the heights experienced overseas, it nonetheless provided an important contribution to the development of formal labour management in Australia.
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Yuen, Shan-shan Rebecca, and 袁珊珊. "Promotion of home ownership for middle-and lower-income classes in Hong Kong: alternative methods." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1997. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31259571.
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Ma, Xiao. "Foreign real estate investment boom and bust in Sydney, Australia - Chinese property developers after the bust." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2021. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/25787.
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This thesis examines Chinese property developers’ responses to the bust in foreign real estate investment in Sydney within the context of a slowing of the domestic real estate market from 2017. In the 2010s, Australia experienced a foreign real estate investment boom and bust, highlighted by a significant boom and bust in residential real estate investment by both individual purchasers and commercial entities. China was the largest source of foreign investment in the Australian real estate market (2012-2017). The withdrawal of individual foreign real estate investors occurred along with a dramatic downturn in domestic real estate activity, reflected by a decrease of transaction volumes, a slight decrease in housing prices in some suburbs, and the slowing of construction activity in the housing market in Sydney. Unlike individual Chinese investors who largely exited the Australian real estate market from 2017, some Chinese property developers appeared committed to the domestic Australian market.
Empirically, this study examines Chinese property developers’ practices in the bust period in Sydney. It is framed within a wider debate about foreign real estate investment in Australia in the 21st century and a complex set of China–Australia geopolitical relations. Conceptually, it presents a number of theoretical innovations that are built around the idea of capital switching. Yet, instead of emphasising capital switching between different circuits of capital accumulation, this analysis shifts to the internal dynamics of the real estate sector itself but expands the spatial scale of analysis into the transnational context. The analysis demonstrates the three phases of capital switching between Australia to China in the 2010s and points out the two initiative switchings of Chinese property developers in the bust, which are ‘customer switching and product switching’.
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Sommer, Marvin. "Homeownership, the production of urban sprawl and an unexpected Nightingale." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22317.
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Homeownership and suburbanisation are two sides of the same coin in the context of Australia. This thesis explores the housing system that facilitates homeownership under a framework of institutional path dependence and how that has facilitated spatial patterns of suburbanization in contemporary Melbourne. Australia has been considered a homeowner society for the larger part of the 20th century. Living and owning a house on a ‘quarter acre block’ in one of its major cities is said to have been a virtue even before homeownership was in reach for the majority of the Australian population. The years after WWII enabled up to 70 per cent of the population to access homeownership tenure. In that, this thesis analyses the institutional, societal and economic configurations that enabled increased homeownership provision, but also the historical processes that further facilitated a system around a dominant tenure. Path dependency theory, developed in the field of historical institutionalism, offers an analytical toolbox to examine long-term processes. In a broad sense, path dependency refers to the continuous reproduction of institutional systems in place. The second part of this thesis examines urbanisation processes in Melbourne, under a framework of institutional and spatial change. Cities are changing environments that, although, they inhabit determinist and reinforcing spatial patterns and institutions, transition over time. By looking at historical and contemporary institutional processes, this thesis examines metropolitan strategies to consolidate the outward growth in the city of Melbourne. Under the aspect of change, current challenges to the built environment are presented. A third analysis connects the macro discussion with a case study of a local housing provider in Melbourne, that in some regards may be viewed as antithesis to the contemporary building regime in the Australian and Melbourne context. As the first in-depth path dependency analysis in the Australian context, this thesis can be viewed as a contribution to the growing body of path dependency literature with a housing focus that also combines the spatial nature of urban environments.
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Howell, Julie A. "Extending the reach: Exploring what it means to be a parent of a hostel adolescent assisting with their child's career development : a case study." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 1998. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/977.
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Research indicates that parents are an important influence on the career development of their children, but, that they have often been considered as an untapped resource. Rural high school aged students, who reside in metropolitan hostels, often live with their parents for less than 15 weeks per year. How do their parents contribute to their career development? This one year research explored the involvement of parents of hostel children, in the career development process of their youth. Through a case study, an analysis described what it means to be a parent of a hostel adolescent with respects to how they help their youth make career decisions. Based within an ecological framework, parents of hostel adolescents completed a questionnaire. Subsets of this group participated in interviews that focused on narratives and a modification of the critical incident technique as used by Young et al. (1992, 1998), and/or group interviews incorporating a ‘direct to print’ methodology as used by Jeffery et al. (1992).This study supported early findings recognising the important parental role in the career development of todays youth by exploring five areas. The cultural capital of parents of hostel adolescents indicates that they have a real sense of pride in their rural status, actively choosing to live in rural centres. They value honesty and respect, enjoying the freedom ‘country’ life affords them. There are general concerns of safety when their children are living in urban centres and at times an acute awareness of costs. Specific concerns for career development focus on parents perceiving they have a lack of knowledge, skills and expertise essential to adequately assist their childs career development. This situation appears to be compounded by a lack of awareness of resources and/or a reluctance to access them. Parent intentions are to instill in their children independence, responsibility, initiative, perseverance and respect. The most common focal point for career development is the selection of subjects for studies and/or courses to complete. Parents of hostel adolescents favour delivery activities that involve them advising their children and requesting and giving information. They encourage and support their children, showing interest and communicating values. They also see the need to set expectations and limits. This research illustrates that parents of hostel adolescents, although not necessarily attempting to influence particular occupational choice are active agents in influencing their children in a broad range of areas in career development.
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Wallace, Gabrielle, and not supplied. "Microeconomic reform of the building and development process: the development and outcomes of building regulation reform in Australia 1990-2003." RMIT University. Social Science and Planning, 2006. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20070205.123414.
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As a component of the regulatory structure controlling building construction and land development in Australia, the system of building regulation was reformed during a period of significant restructuring of the Australian economy. The microeconomic reforms aimed to find efficiencies in government and industry sectors, and with respect to the latter, facilitate the development of competitive trade structures across national and global markets. The research provides a critical narrative account of the development and outcomes of the microeconomic reform of building regulation between 1990 and 2003. The microeconomic reform process is examined in the context of the vastly differing approaches of two Australian states, Victoria and New South Wales, with respect to the national reform agenda which was initiated and led by the Commonwealth government in response to the increasing globalization of the national economy. An understanding of what happened and why and how t he states differed with respect to the national reform agenda enabled the outcomes of the reforms to be examined for their impact upon government, industry and the community. The regulation of building construction is a constitutional responsibility of the state governments and has traditionally been controlled by local government. However, control is increasingly being centralized at the national level, in response to international pressures to adopt performance-based regulations, standards and governance systems that accord to neoliberal ideology. This has resulted in a reduction of state and local government involvement in certain building control functions with a commensurate increased role for the private sector; an increase in the complexity and quantity of regulatory instruments; a reduction in government accountability for the standard of building construction; the development of structures to facilitate competitive intranational and international trade in construction-related goods and services and a reduction in the quality and standard of buildings. The principal benefits of the reforms have accrued to industry and to government and the least benefits have accrued to the community/consumer.
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Petersen, Matilde Breth. "Social and Emotional Wellbeing impacts of prolonged extreme heat driven by climate change: lived experiences of public housing residents in a regional community in Victoria, Australia." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2021. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/26843.
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The increasing pace of climate change is expected to give rise to more severe and more frequent adverse climate events. Significant amongst these is the increased frequency of prolonged periods of extreme heat, with concomitant impacts on human health. The existing literature on this topic focuses predominantly on the quantifiable physical health impacts of extreme heat; much less researched is its effect on social and emotional wellbeing.
My research focuses on people residing in public housing in a community (pseudonym, ‘Sunset Country’) located in northwest Victoria, Australia, where severe heatwaves are a common occurrence. In Australia, there is no clear legislation around the provision of cooling in public housing. Hence, the health and wellbeing of public housing residents in Sunset Country are at serious risk during prolonged periods of extreme heat due to their having no means of keeping their homes cool or escaping the heat.
The overall aim of my research was to explore the lived experiences of public housing residents living on Sunset Country, to understand how prolonged extreme heat exposure impacts their social and emotional wellbeing. Employing a qualitative methodological framework based on community engagement and participatory action research principles, I conducted eight focus groups and one in-depth interview with public housing residents living on Sunset Country and the service providers who support them.
Using thematic analysis, I developed two major themes: first, that extreme heat impacts the emotional wellbeing of public housing residents (with subthemes around mood changes, inability to cope, anxiety, the exacerbation of mental health conditions and effects of insufficient sleep on school performance), and second, that extreme heat impacts the social wellbeing of public housing residents, with subthemes of social isolation, erosion of social cohesion, increased conflict and reduction in community safety).
The participants’ lived experiences contribute to three overarching theories grounded in my data. Firstly, policies are not keeping up with the changing climate; despite significant increases in the severity of heatwaves, there have been no amendments to public housing policy addressing the need for cooling legislation. Secondly, there is an apparent misalignment of governmental rhetoric and action; public housing in Sunset Country may not be fit for habitation given the lack of protection against extreme heat, and thus perpetuates inequalities in the community. Finally, bureaucratic failings contribute to the cycle of disadvantage and disempowerment experienced by public housing residents, reducing individual agency.
My research findings make a significant contribution to building knowledge around the previously underexplored relationship between extreme heat and social and emotional wellbeing. Based on the perspectives and concerns voiced by my participants, I provide several recommendations for action. These include the development of sustainable climate adaptation strategies and urgent policy action to improve public housing living standards, aligning with the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals.
Research must endeavour to give voice to people already impacted by the effects of climate change to gain deeper and more holistic understandings of these issues and their social and emotional impacts. Lived experience knowledge can then be used to urgently develop appropriate climate adaptation strategies to effectively safeguard human health and prevent societal inequities from widening.
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Lewis, Sally Anne. "Reconciling Australian planning, development and housing outcomes." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/16832.
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Recently Australian governments and the housing industry have argued that planning was, in part, responsible for low rates of housing supply growth during a period of strong population growth and high house prices. In response, this study explored how planning influences the decisions industry makes regarding the housing projects it is responsible for delivering. Thirty nine industry professionals from public, private and community sector organisations, and thirty six public sector planners from local, state and federal agencies, in NSW, ACT and SA participated, while the Sydney Growth Centres provided a contemporary case study. The study found planning was secondary to the priority influences on industry decisions of market, unique organisational characteristics, the site, and financial or economic conditions. Each housing project is a unique combination of these factors, and therefore inconsistent with the strategic planning framework to some extent. The principal planning influence was therefore ‘time’ associated with undertaking strategic planning processes, during which mandatory planning approvals cannot be obtained and new housing cannot be delivered. Contrary to recent planning reform agendas that emphasis standardisation and clearly articulated strategic plans, it was found ‘responsive’ planning that integrates the activities and knowledge of industry, with planning processes and infrastructure agency activities could facilitate the delivery of housing projects that reflect planning objectives, while shortening time frames. However, this should not compromise ‘certainty’ and ‘transparency’, which is valued by community, government, infrastructure agencies and industry. A ‘relational’ approach to planning, where plans are structured frameworks for considering urban problems, opportunities and proposals may address the certainty versus responsiveness tension. Planners would be responsible for facilitating pragmatic solutions that balance competing urban interests. Further research that addresses responsive and relational strategic planning in an Australian context, and the crucial role of public sector planners as they engage with industry and balance competing urban interests is suggested.
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Khezr, Peyman. "Selling Mechanisms and The Australian Housing Market." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/10149.
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This thesis examines selling mechanisms relevant mainly to auctions and applicable in the context of the housing market. In the first two chapters a context is described in which the seller of an object has private information about its value that is important to potential buyers. If the seller is unable to reveal this information to the buyers at no cost, the problem of adverse selection arises. Among other examples, auctions of arts, wines, and residential properties are most relevant to the current study. The sellers in these markets observe some private characteristics of their objects that are important to buyers but not revealable to them at no cost. In the first chapter we study some common selling mechanisms in this setting. Specifically, we study an ascending auction with two different reserve price regimes for the seller: first, disclosing the reserve price at the beginning of the auction; and second, keeping the reserve price secret and reserving the right to accept or reject the auction price after the bidding ends. We also study the common posted-price mechanism for the purposes of comparison. Throughout this chapter the assumption is that the seller chooses the mechanism from the ex ante point of view-that is, before observing her signal. Thus, the choice of mechanism itself does not reveal any further information to the buyers. The results in the first chapter suggest that in a one-shot game the seller can realise a higher ex ante expected payoff by choosing the secret reserve price regime than the other two mechanisms. At the end this chapter a dynamic setting is studied to examine the possibility of an extension of these static results to a dynamic case. Most of the results for the one-shot game are extendable to the proposed dynamic game. In the second chapter we study an informed seller's best interest among the two previously mentioned reserve price regimes at the interim stage-that is, after the seller has observed her private information. We study how the seller's expected payoff could change if she observes the signal and then chooses the reserve price mechanism. In this case the choice of mechanism itself could reveal some information to buyers. The results show the conditions under which an informed seller, after observing her signal, chooses to keep the reserve price secret or discloses the reserve price. The last two chapters focus specifically on the housing market. The third chapter adds to the theoretical literature of the housing market by proposing a more realistic selling mechanism applicable to this market: the one in which the seller posts a price to attract potential buyers to make a counteroffer. This game is studied in a dynamic setting with the possibility of more than one potential buyer arriving at each period. In the event that one buyer arrives, the seller engages in negotiation with that buyer; in the event that multiple buyers arrive, the seller runs an auction with a reserve price. This explains why sometimes sale prices are higher than the asking price and at the same time proposes a role for the asking price in this market. Other small variations of this mechanism are also studied for the purposes of comparison. The final chapter is an empirical study of the Sydney housing market. We use comprehensive data on the Sydney housing market composed of 25,489 observations for properties sold in the Sydney region in 2011. We consider the fact that both the seller of the property and the real estate agent have a common goal: to sell the property at the highest possible price in the shortest amount of time. The analysis is divided into two major parts. First, we estimate a two-stage least square model to analyse which parameters affect time on the market for a property. Second, we propose a probit model that estimates the parameters that affect a revision in list prices. The results suggest that overpricing increases time spent on the market, and properties with a revised list price stay on the market for a longer time.
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Kenna, Therese E. "Private community? : the lived experiences of privatism and community in the development and management of a private residential estate in Sydney, Australia." Thesis, View thesis, 2009. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/43635.
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Private residential estates are becoming a mainstream product in urban residential development in Australia. While this urban residential form has attracted attention because of its possible contribution to processes of segregation in metropolitan regions, there has been little empirical research that has examined social life and community formation within these neighbourhoods. Thus, one of the main aims of this thesis is to understand the nature of social life, interactions and community formation within a private residential estate in Sydney, Australia – Macquarie Links. Of particular interest is the ways in which community is understood by the residents and how this community is managed and negotiated given the private governance structure of the neighbourhood. In this thesis I develop an understanding of the role of the private structure in the formation, negotiation and management of community. With the promise of privatism and community being actively marketed and sold to residents of private residential estates by developers and real estate agents, they appear at once both contradictory and dependent. This thesis argues that community formation relies on the private structure of the neighbourhood with the two being intertwined and co-dependent, rather than contradictory or mutually exclusive as is usually viewed in the urban studies literature. The thesis argues that the formation of community in Macquarie Links relies on the identification of commonalities and complexities, consent and disagreement, private and community, which in turn allows for a consideration of the ways in which community and privatism are intertwined and sustain each other. Common bonds and disagreements have continually sustained the community of Macquarie Links such as that between owners and renters, adults and young people, the community and the individual. These disagreements, differences and ‘dramas’ within the estate are frequently managed by the community association (through the private structure), which in turn sustains community. For the residents of Macquarie Links, the structure of the neighbourhood and community relations, with private governance and neighbourhood committees, allowed for a more encompassing protection of the residential environment, or indeed, control. Physical security and gating is thus not the most significant element of private gated residential estates. Control, through restrictive covenants and community management offers order and stability in the residential neighbourhood. The structure of the community is important for controlling the quality of the neighbourhood. Restrictive covenants and community-led management of the estate are very communal tactics for maintaining the private structure and privatism within Macquarie Links. The thesis challenges the assumptions that privatism and community are the anti-thesis to each other. Further, neoliberal, private and individual ‘subjects’ are often coupled together and considered to be one in the same. However, being ‘private’ in Macquarie Links also requires being communal. The individual is a threat to solidarity in the belief in the private structure of the neighbourhood that aids social and communal life. This thesis demonstrates that in the context of private residential estates the private subject is different from the neoliberal subject. There are a number of emerging concerns regarding the long term economic viability of private residential estates internationally. So as well as providing original and important insights into the lived experiences of life in a private residential estate, the thesis contributes to emergent understandings of the structure, functioning and legalities of privately governed residential developments. This thesis also points to the lack of transparency in the contractual arrangements for purchasing property within a private estate. Finally, this thesis contributes to key debates in urban
geography and urban sociology in three ways. First, through a detailed qualitative study of social life within private residential estates, this thesis contributes to broader understandings of the complexities of urban differences and divisions. Second, this thesis challenges some of the established assumptions regarding the development of private residential estates as purely an outcome of the neoliberal agenda and neoliberalist project in many western cities through an identification of the local nuances and lived experiences of privatism, which demonstrates how privatism, individualism and neoliberalism are subtly different in reality. Finally, this thesis engages with the notion of community through a recasting of theories of community to encompass commonalities and disagreements within community. This thesis demonstrates how this conceptualisation of community creates a space for understanding different types of community within cities.
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Hewton, Jack. "Housing Precariousness and the Wellbeing of Australian Adults." Thesis, Curtin University, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/82847.
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This thesis generates a comprehensive evidence base that offers an up-to-date picture on the links between housing precariousness and wellbeing. Housing precariousness consists of four dimensions – tenure insecurity, unaffordable housing, unsuitable housing and insecure neighbourhoods. Private renting, an aspect of tenure insecurity, had the greatest impact on wellbeing, associated with reduced life satisfaction. The findings highlight the need for fixed and long-term leases, removing without-grounds evictions and policies that provide housing security for low-income individuals.
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Grant, Elizabeth. "Aboriginal Housing In South Australia, An Overview of Housing at Oak Valley, Maralinga Tjarutja." 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/39624.
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This work presents an overview of housing at Oak Valley, a remote Aboriginal community in the Maralinga Tjarutja Lands and paints a broad contextual picture of the political processes and resultant housing. It examines specific cultural and environmental issues relevant to the population and remote areas of South Australia, documents the process and structures for the provision of housing and investigates the subsequent housing typeshttp://proxy.library.adelaide.edu.au/login?url= http://library.adelaide.edu.au/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=679955
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Grant, Elizabeth Maree. "Aboriginal housing in remote South Australia : an overview of housing at Oak Valley, Maralinga Tjarutja Lands." Thesis, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/39624.
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This work presents an overview of housing at Oak Valley, a remote Aboriginal community in the Maralinga Tjarutja Lands and paints a broad contextual picture of the political processes and resultant housing. It examines specific cultural and environmental issues relevant to the population and remote areas of South Australia, documents the process and structures for the provision of housing and investigates the subsequent housing typesThesis (M. Env. Stud.) -- University of Adelaide, Mawson Graduate Centre for Environmental Studies, 1999
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Kou, Jiaying. "Analysing Housing Price in Australia with Data Science Methods." Thesis, 2022. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/43940/.
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Housing market price prediction is a major and important challenge in economics. Since the 2008 global financial crisis, researchers, economists, and politicians around the world have increasingly drawn attention to the need of better understanding housing market behaviour, since the failure to predict housing market crisis ahead of time had led to catastrophic global damage. On the other hand, around the same time, we have seen the revolution of information technology and artificial intelligence in the last two decades. The advent of powerful cloud and high performance computing systems, big data, and advanced machine learning algorithms have demonstrated new applications and advantages in cutting-edge research and technology areas such as pattern recognition, bioinformatics, natural language processing, and product recommendation systems.
Can we make the leap of improving our understanding of housing market behaviour by leveraging these recent advances in artificial intelligence and newly available big data? This is the main theme of the thesis. There is strong motivation to explore the application of data science methods, including new large datasets and advanced machine learning algorithm, to accelerate our understanding of housing market problems for the benefit of the common good.
In order to understand housing market behaviour, we divide the problem into two major steps: first, to improve understanding of housing appraisal (at microlevel), which is to predict housing price at the point level given a fixed timeframe; second, to improve understanding of the trend prediction (at macro level), which is to predict the housing price trend for a specific place during a time interval.
For these two major steps, we improve upon traditional economic modelling by:
• Adding new, non-traditional variables/features to our models, such as location-based Point of Interests, regional economic clusters, qualitative index, searching index, and newspaper articles
• Applying machine learning algorithms for data analysis, such as non-linear algorithms, K-Nearest-Neighbour, Support Vector Machine, Gradient Boost, and sentiment analysis
Specifically, in Chapter 3, we focus on the development of Location-Based Social
Network (LBSN) for our micro-level housing appraisal modelling. A good location
goes beyond the direct benefits from its neighbourhood. By leveraging housing
data, neighbourhood data, regional economic cluster data and demographic data,
we build a housing appraisal model, named HNED. Unlike most previous statistical and machine learning based housing appraisal research, which limit their
investigations to neighbourhoods within 1km radius of the house, we expand the
investigation beyond the local neighbourhood and to the whole metropolitan area,
by introducing the connection to significant influential economic nodes, which we
term Regional Economic Clusters. Specifically, we introduce regional economic
clusters within the metropolitan range into the housing appraisal model, such as
the connection to CBD, workplace, or the convenience and quality of big shopping
malls and university clusters. When used with the gradient boosting algorithm
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XGBoost to perform housing price appraisal, HNED reached 0.88 in R . In addition, we found that the feature vector from Regional Economic Clusters alone reached 0.63 in R2, significantly higher than all traditional features. Chapter 3 focuses on the exploration and validation of HNED modelling.
In Chapter 4 and Chapter 5, we focus on macro-level housing price trend prediction. We fill the gap between the traditional macro-level housing market modelling and new developments of the concept of irrationality in microeconomic theories, by collecting and analysing economic behavioural data, such as real estate opinions in local newspaper articles, and people’s web searching behaviour as captured by Google Trend Index. In Chapter 4, we discuss the usage of micro-level behavioural data for understanding macro-level housing market behaviour. We use sentiment analysis to examine local newspaper articles discussing real estate at a suburb level in inner-west Sydney, Australia. We then calculate the media sentiment index by using two different methods, and compare them with each other and the housing price index. The use of media sentiment index can serve as a finer-grained guiding tool to facilitate decision-making for home buyers, investors, researchers and policy makers. In Chapter 5, we discuss how new developments of behavioural economic theory indicate that the information from decision-making at the micro-level will bring a new solution to the age-old problem of economic forecasting. It provides the theoretical link between irrationality and big data methods. Specifically, Google Trend Index is included as a new variable in a time series auto-regression model to forecast housing market cycles.
To summarise the contributions of the thesis, we conclude that this is a successful early attempt to study housing price problems using data science methods, by leveraging newly available data sets and applying novel machine learning methods. Specifically, location-based social data improves the housing appraisal modelling. Human behaviour for housing market is analysed by introducing local newspaper articles and Google Trend Index into the modelling and analysis.
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Kilner, David, and University of Adelaide Dept of Politics. "The evolution of South Australian urban housing policy, 1836-1987 / David Kilner." 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/18699.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Politics, 1988