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2 Dec 2024

Saturday 30th Nov, 2024; ‘Help to Buy Housing Bill’; Hal Pawson, Prof. Housing Research and Policy, and Asso. Dir. City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney

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Saturday 30th Nov, 2024; ‘Help to Buy Housing Bill’; Hal Pawson, Prof. Housing Research and Policy, and Asso. Dir. City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney

Nevena and Macca are joined live on air by Hal Pawson, Prof. Housing Research and Policy, and Asso. Dir. City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney.

…”the Help to Buy and Build to Rent tax reform initiatives are rather narrowly targeted and quite modest in scale. But although no one is claiming them as silver bullets, both can be fairly justified as sensible efforts to address widely perceived housing pressure points: namely, home ownership affordability and private rental housing quality”.

https://theconversation.com/the-senate-has-passed-the-help-to-buy-housing-scheme-it-will-help-but-not-much-239087

Professor Hal Pawson (http://www.be.unsw.edu.au/profile/hal_pawson) is a highly experienced researcher in the urban planning field. He joined UNSW’s City Futures Research Centre in 2011 from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. His key interests include the governance and management of social housing, private rental housing and urban renewal. His latest co-authored book, Housing Policy in Australia: A case for system reform (Palgrave) was published in 2020. Hal is Managing Editor of Housing Studies, the leading international journal in this field.

Image courtesy of The Conversation.

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