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news 19th September 2024 in news

Current housing affordability measures don’t reflect real housing costs

Most of the trade-offs lower-income households make to afford their housing costs are not accounted for in the housing affordability measurements used by policy makers, according to new AHURI research. As a result housing can appear affordable even though it is of such poor quality it affects people’s health or it is located far from employment opportunities so that householders have very high commuting costs.

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  • Curtin University
  • RMIT University
  • Swinburne University
  • Adelaide University
  • UNSW University
  • University of South Australia
  • The University of Sydney
  • University of Tasmania
  • Monash University