Housing News Digest
Housing News Digest
The Tenants' Union Housing News Digest compiles our pick of items from all the latest tenancy and housing media, sent once per week, on Thursdays.
Below is the Digest archive from November 2020 onwards. From time to time you will find additional items in the archive that did not make it into the weekly Digest email. Earlier archives are here, where you can also find additional digests by other organisations.
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Archive
How unis can use student housing to solve international student quarantine issues
Christopher Ziguras and Tom Alves The Conversation (No paywall)The arrival at Darwin airport on Monday of 63 students from China, Hong Kong, Japan, Vietnam and Indonesia on a charter flight from Singapore ended an eight-month hiatus in international student arrivals in Australia. They are now in the Howard Springs quarantine facility. Quarantine capacity is a major issue, given the numbers of international students. Using student accommodation to quarantine newly arrived students is a way to increase this capacity. Our research, released today, shows this could be important for solving the quarantine issue.
https://theconversation.com/how-unis-can-use-student-housing-to-…
# Research alert Australia, Coronavirus COVID-19, Students.Fears for Melbourne's homeless forced out of Covid hotel accommodation
Matilda Boseley The Guardian (No paywall)Rough sleepers worry they will end up back on the streets as funding for Victoria’s Home for Homeless scheme runs out.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/dec/02/fears-for…
# Australia, Coronavirus COVID-19, Homelessness.Eliminating most homelessness is achievable. It starts with prevention and “housing first”
Angela Spinney The Conversation (No paywall)The stereotype of a homeless person – those living in tents or sleeping in parks or doorways – is just the visible tip of the much larger crisis of homelessness in Australia.
https://theconversation.com/eliminating-most-homelessness-is-ach…
# Australia, Homelessness.People Fleeing Big Cities Risk Overwhelming Small Towns
Van Badham (No paywall)The property market is running red hot in small-town Australia. Buyers are snapping up houses — sometimes sight unseen — as city folk bet the era of working in an office fulltime won’t return. That's filling some locals with horror. (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-11-30/real-estate-b…
# Australia, Coronavirus COVID-19, Housing market.House prices rose in November, but is the ‘FOMO’ recovery sustainable?
Matt Johnson The New Daily (No paywall)The fear of missing out has spurred national house prices to bounce back in November despite the recession.
https://thenewdaily.com.au/finance/property/2020/12/01/house-pri…
# Australia, Housing market.Inner-city apartments face 10 per cent price slide
John Collett The Sydney Morning Herald (Paywall)Despite the biggest economic slump since the Great Depression, job losses and no immigration, house prices are holding up relatively better than expected, but there are still concerns for high-rise apartments in Melbourne and Sydney, where prices could fall another 10 per cent.
https://www.smh.com.au/money/investing/inner-city-apartments-fac…
# Australia, Housing market.Property prices rise in every capital city in November
Jennifer Duke The Sydney Morning Herald (Paywall)Property prices in every capital city increased over November, as the Reserve Bank cut interest rates to record lows and restrictions to limit the second wave of coronavirus outbreaks started to be lifted.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/property-prices-rise-in-…
# Australia, Coronavirus COVID-19, Housing market.House prices rise nationally in November, with further gains expected for 2021, says CoreLogic
Nassim Khadem ABC (No paywall)House prices have continued to rise nationally in the face of the coronavirus-driven recession. Property analysts no longer expect 10 to 20 per cent declines in house prices, and expect that if the virus remains under control in Australia prices will rise more by early next year.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-12-01/corelogic-national-house-…
# Australia, Coronavirus COVID-19, Housing market.