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Better Renting’s Advocacy Coordinator, Bernie Barrett, outlines the organisation’s crucial work in the renting sector to improve the living conditions and wellbeing of renters across Australia. Making homes energy efficient reduces bills, improves peoples’ health and wellbeing, reduces emissions, and makes homes more comfortable and
At my first official event in the prescribed role as Lived Experience Co-Chair Western Australia Alliance to End Homelessness, I was engaged to be the first of two opening speakers at the Australian Zero Homelessness Summit Brisbane held at the Brisbane Convention Centre on August
Today, the housing ‘market’ is never out of the news. Affordability, availability, development, investment, interest rates: the ever-cranking machinery of casino capitalism where the chips ‘flipped’ are investment properties and no longer the suburban dream home of the past. In the 21st century, the Australian
Almost everyone has an awareness that housing has, in some places, become unaffordable for all (who are not already homeowners) except for those on a very high income bracket. We are faced with the situation that the average wage- or income-earner will not be able, even with a double income, to buy into the property market in certain towns and cities.
The book Housing for Degrowth is the focus of 26 events in a European train tour of 11 countries from 26 October to 4 December. Co-editors Anitra Nelson and François Schneider will talk to students, degrowth activists, fellow academics — indeed anyone and everyone interested in housing and urban (de)growth in a range of cities.
New Release! Degrowth in the Suburbs: A Radical Urban Imaginary, by Sam Alexander and Brendan Gleeson.
This book addresses a central dilemma of the urban age: how to make suburban landscapes sustainable in the face of planetary ecological crisis. The authors argue that degrowth, a planned contraction of overgrown economies, is the most coherent paradigm for suburban renewal.