Housing and income inequalities in the city

Summary

The aims of the project are to empirically document and map the process of socio-spatial polarisation as expressed in housing prices and rents, income and labour market change in Melbourne and to examine the way in which the mobility of different income and tenure groups are both influenced by and shape polarisation patterns.

Project Number: 50382
Research Theme: Economic, Demographics_and_Modelling
Project Leader: Wulff, Maryann
Funding Year: 2007
Research Centre: Swinburne-Monash

Description

A large body of Australian research has been concerned with the socio-spatial patterns that emerge from housing and labour market processes. Inasmuch as change, however, occurs through population movements, an approach that takes population mobility into account is required. This project directs attention to the role of population and household movements.

This project addresses an issue of contemporary importance that cuts across both housing and urban policy; demonstrates high quality empirical analyses with data covering 20 years; reveals the important 'value added' component attached to large specialist data files; and engages policy makers and professionals in considering the implications of mobility for the efficient operation of the housing market.

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