A spatial analysis of trends in housing markets and changing patterns of household structure and income
Summary
Australia’s home ownership rate fell 2.2 percentage points from 68.2 per cent to 66 per cent between 1986 and 1996, mainly due to a decline in the percentage of home purchasers rather than outright owners. In metropolitan areas across Australia the home ownership rate for households in the 25-44 year old age group declined by 6.7 percentage points, more than twice the decline in non-metropolitan regions and more than three times the decline in the aggregate home ownership rate.
Project Number: 60064
Research Theme: Home_Ownership, Private_Rental, Economics_Modelling
Project Leader: Yates, Judith
Funding Year: 2001
Research Centre: Sydney
Description
An extensive body of housing research has highlighted the way in which housing outcomes are driven by socio-demographic factors, by changes in household incomes and by housing opportunities. Less work has been undertaken on whether spatially distinct patterns of household formation, along with spatial disparities in employment opportunities, can lead to spatial disparities in household incomes. If this is so, there will be spatial differences in the impact of socio-demographic and economic restructuring on housing markets. To the extent there are spatial differences in the response of housing markets to social and structural change, these will impact on the housing opportunities open to newly formed households both in relation to home ownership and in relation to private rental.
This project is specifically concerned with the spatial implications of socio-demographic and economic change on the two major housing tenures: home ownership and private rental.
More Information
Positioning Paper: No. 030: A spatial analysis of trends in housing markets and changing patterns of household structure and income
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Final Report: No. 022: Housing implications of social, spatial and structural change
621 B PDF Document
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