Housing

Flashcards about housing.

Housing as a system

Looking at the components of our society, our legal system, our social systems and constructs, and how they all mesh together in the way that we see housing today.

Learning objectives

The issues that confront the provision of equitable housing in Australia and the role of the government within housing in Australia.

Housing as a system

The underpinning philosophies and paradigms, ways of thinking that drive our values.

Housing's social significance

It separates it from other commodities.

Unhealthy housing

Damp, moldy, poorly ventilated, and they lead to significant health issues.

Housing

It is inextricably linked to neighborhood urban settings.

Planning as a public policy tool

Manage neighborhoods and settings.

Four policy pillars

Securing wages, social security, trade protection, and housing.

Neoliberal paradigm

Every man for themselves, and that's the capitalist way in which we operate today.

Government's mindset

They wanted to reduce government interference, and the provision of housing that the government made was considered to be temporary.

Housing today

Debt for housing and debt for all sorts of things.

Commodity

It's a trade away set.

Unaffordable housing

Housing has become unaffordable for many people.

Heavily burdened with debt

Housing or households more particularly are heavily burdened with debt.

Inaccessible to segments of society

It's virtually become inaccessible to segments of society.

Lower end

Those persons at the lower end of society strata have basically given up on any thought of another access housing.

Degraded in the public sector

The housing that the government provides has not been ugly well maintained. It has a social stigma. Everything's working to the lowest common denominator.

Private rentals

Private rentals are considered insecure.

Crisis of confidence in high rise apartments

People aren't embracing them in the once that it was once believed.

Private markets

Private markets do not work for everybody.