Experiencing the housing affordability problem: blocked aspirations, trade-offs and financial hardships

Abstract

Seeks to provide a comprehensive assessment of housing affordability for lower-income Australians, addressing the scale, complexity of debate and policy imperatives from a wide and coherent range of perspectives. NRV3 has produced a number of previous reports on topics that include defining and measuring housing affordability (Gabriel et al. 2005), housing affordability and its potential impact upon the economy (Berry 2006a,b), analysing affordability and housing stress (Yates and Gabriel 2006), and affordable housing policy in Australia (Milligan 2005). [Introduction]