Housing markets in resource boom towns

Summary

This project will examine housing market dynamics in resource boom towns in Western Australia and Queensland. In particular, the impact of boom resource conditions on housing affordability and its effects on a variety of other related social indicators in those towns.

Project Number: 80370
Research Theme: Housing Affordability
Project Leader: Haslem-McKenzie, Fiona M
Funding Year: 2007
Research Centre: Western Australia

Description

This project will:

Provide a detailed analysis of the causal factors of the housing market dynamics in resource boom towns.
Identify any resource boom towns which do not have a housing affordability crisis, or are experiencing less severe crisis compared to other towns, and investigate why that is the case?
Identify the flow-on effects of housing affordability issues in a community and the impacts on the socio-economic functionality of the community.
Assess the potential options for governments and the private sector to ameliorate the housing affordability issues in resource boom towns, based on international examples and public-private partnerships.
Identify and evaluate how governments and resource companies have previously, and are currently, managing these issues

This project will contribute to housing and regional development policy by identifying the inter-relationship between the labour market, housing affordability and the social sustainability of remote communities.

The study will also identify actions which mining companies, the private sector and government have taken, or could take, to ameliorate any housing shortages. This will lead to a broader analysis of the respective responsibilities of governments and industry and appropriate linkages for coordinating action between the sectors.

More Information

Positioning Paper: No. 105: A review of the contextual issues regarding housing market dynamics in resource boom towns
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