Miller's Point And The Rocks Case Analysis

A housing policy can be thought of as the efforts put in by a given government to transform a housing market(s) for the purposes of achieving social objectives. In most cases, a housing policy is meant to ensure that the general population has access to a home that is affordable. For instance, the British Conservative/Liberal Democratic coalition’s housing policy is aimed at increasing the number of affordable housing units; fostering homeownership; making social housing flexible; tackling homelessness (especially for the

The issue of homelessness in regard to shelter in Australia has been prevalent for an extended period of time in the 21st century. Homelessness is the situation in which individuals are unable to attain a permanent and adequate quality of shelter. Shelter is a human right as stated under article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which specifies “Housing” as part of the standard of living required for an individual to maintain their wellbeing. Australia’s law specifies no legal right to shelter, however as a party of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), the Australian government must recognise that all individuals should be entitled to “an adequate standard of living for themself and their family”, where one criteria is “adequate housing” as stated in article 11. It is imperative that in order to fulfil both Australia’s obligation to uphold human rights and maintain social cohesion within society both legal and non-legal responses are effective in dealing with both the causes and effects of homelessness.

Much of these change have been focussed on achieving wider access to welfare benefits and having a tenancy to live in supported homes. The aim of supported living practice like mencap to achieve choice, control and community inclusion has been much less of a focus. The result has been a focus on the housing ‘mechanics’ and as a consequence housing rights are often denied in, institutional practices continue in supported living and community inclusion and networks are not achieved by

For most tenants they have been replaced by Housing Benefit. The sale of Dundee’s council housing to tenants and mass transfers of stock to Registered Social Landlords, have reduced the numbers to approx 14,000 current stock. As the role of council housing has diminished, Housing Associations have been encouraged to take over the limited opportunities for development.

This policy brief is prepared to give some insights of the housing affordability problem in Australia. In addition, the paper also suggests some approaches in which the Government should consider in tackling the issue in the Australian context. Housing affordability always

To judge the success or failure of Blumberg Apartments, we must first analyze the project as it works to provide good housing. Good housing should not just be regarded as a noun, it should also encompass housing as a verb. The commodity of the house as a shelter is the noun. This commodity should provide a place for redressing. It should hold the essential necessities that make for a comfortable and complete home. A place that balances privacy and social interactions. As a verb, good housing should be a utility that works to enhance one’s life (Turner, 1972). It should be a stepping stone towards opportunity. For Blumberg Apartments in the grand scheme, both of these facets can be regarded as failures. As the housing projects suffered through massive deterioration, it failed as a commodity. Residents described how their housing had “stairwells that reeked of urine and dirty diapers, constantly breaking appliances and elevators, and the frequent sounds of gunshots” (Colaneri, 2016). Furthermore, units were found to not meet minimum size standards and

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Selling of council houses is becoming an increasing issue in the UK as people and even businesses are buying the house out. This means hundreds of family homes are now owned by private landlords or individual people. As a consequence, families are finding it difficult to find family-homes to live in.

Prior to urban renewal, Pyrmont-Ultimo had residents with similar incomes. However to achieve the goal of social equity plans were made for a mixed, high-density, medium-rise residential area. Approximately 7500 new dwellings have been constructed plus the renovation of 1400 existing dwellings. The aim was to cater for all household types such as families, couples and singles, provide affordable housing for middle to low income earners, provide residential dwellings with waterfront access and with water and city views, protect existing housing, retain a socially diverse residential population which includes all income groups, provide opportunities to live close to places of work and to create a high quality urban environment. The provision of affordable or public housing was an important aspect to consider in the process. Without some sort of intervention to provide this affordable housing, the attractiveness of living close to Sydney’s CBD would only be reserved for high income earners as dwellings would be too expensive and rent would be too high. From a social equity point of view it was therefore vital to provide

Housing Affordability in Australia has become the focus point for urban planners in recent years. In particular, South East Queensland (SEQ) has experienced significant pressure as the demand for property and affordable dwellings increases and population growth in the region continues. The issue has come to the forefront in discussions for local governments in the region and there is a real need to address the problem of housing affordability. The subject of affordability is complex and is contributed to by a number of factors including the impost created by Council processes, which is the scope of the HAF-T5 Project.

The case study is composed of interviews, media analysis, and a spatial analysis of group homes in Worcester. The interviews with stakeholders in the siting of social service facilities are used extensively throughout the article once the author introduces the case study. These interviews help provide a direct view of the topic which usually wouldn’t be readily available in public channels such as city council, zoning board meetings, or press conferences. An example of is the use of social service administrators voicing their opinion on the Dover Amendment, a law which “exempts religious and educational institutions from local land use laws” (Pierce et al., 2012). The authors go on to use their media analysis to present info that would readily available to the public, such as their use of the social service’s press confrence on their accused abuse of the Dover Amendment. Spatial analysis of Worcester is used to reinforce the presented concept that the best places for social service facilities isn’t where they're located due to the political back channels they need to go

King Island Council is custodian of an extensive range of community assets that it provides to facilitate the delivery of its services to the community. Buildings are an important component of Council’s asset portfolio. In order to facilitate the provision of its services to the community, KI Council manages an extensive range of community assets and one of the more significant asset groups are buildings. In developing this plan, it was identified that Council’s interests historically (and in line with community’s expectations) extended beyond Council owned assets to other community facilities. The purpose of this Buildings Asset Management Plan is to:

This suggests that there should be a change in Australian housing policies to focus on taxes, land supply and land-use planning policy.

The agency of Meath County Council is vast, to be more specific, the housing department will be the focus of this assignment. The key aims are to provide those on the housing waiting list with suitable and hopefully long term accommodation. The housing department is a local authority department which operates in all county councils as said stated in section 22 of the housing Miscellaneous Provisions act if 2009. The scheme is based on applicant who qualify for housing support or those transferring form already council properties [Meath Local Authorities, 2011, MCC]. The housing department does, however, offer a variety of services to today’s society. An example of such is the homeless services.

Auckland is one of the most evolved cities with time. New Zealand as we know is a much recent country on the face of this world and so almost quite unknown to a lot of people in this world for a lot of time. But with time New Zealand gained its popularity with Auckland being the center of attraction of this beautiful country. Auckland is one of the most diversified cities in the world with people from all over the world especially from Asia. Auckland is serving far beyond that was expected from it much earlier by town planners and Councils heading the country. People from all over the world are coming to this city for a variety of reasons like education, business, work, travel, etc. This aim of the report is expanding the concept of the rising Auckland housing affordability problems with time and as to how to solve this problem for future growth of the city without being compromised. The report will firstly deal with