DEFINING HOUSING AFFORDABILITY HAS CREATED A CHALLENGE FOR ACADEMICS, INDUSTRY AND GOVERNMENT OVER MANY YEARS WHILE RANKING THE AFFORDABILITY OF CITIES IS EVEN MORE CHALLENGING WITH OVER SIMPLIFICATION BEING THE MAJOR ISSUE. Measures such as dividing median house price by median income to provide comparison gives an indicator of housing affordability but it is only […]
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The West Australian WA land buyers are set to pay significantly more money for smaller blocks of land as dwindling land supply becomes the next major battleground in the housing crisis. New figures from the Urban Development Institute, revealed at a recent housing roundtable, show land is back in hot demand, with a 70 per […]
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The West Australian Community resistance and a lack of sizeable development sites are major barriers to medium density development in Perth. Perth and Peel@3.5m promotes higher density residential developments around activity centres, station precincts and along high-frequency public transport routes, to create housing diversity and choice. However, WA Planning Commission chairman David Caddy told an Urban […]
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