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Moving home: the role of housing policy in responding to and promoting mobility (Essay)

Summary

This Essay asks whether there is a link between housing policy and residential mobility, and what housing policy makers might need to know to better anticipate and meet the needs of households as they move.

Project Number: 70695
Research Theme: Social_wellbeing, Urban_planning_and_development
Project Leader: Dufty, Rae
Funding Year: 2011
Research Centre: UNSW-UWS

Description

Residential mobility has implications for housing submarkets and so is an important issue for housing policy makers to consider. Policies to influence residential mobility (such as the US Moving to Opportunity program) may also be a way by which governments can achieve broader social goals.

This essay considers what contemporary mobility research might say for housing and housing policy in Australia.

AHURI events involving this project

• The changing structure of housing markets — Sydney, Tue 19 June 2012