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{"title":"The Australian housing supply myth","authors":"Cameron K. Murray","doi":"10.1080/07293682.2021.1920991","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07293682.2021.1920991","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Australia's expensive housing market is often claimed to be primarily the result of a shortage of supply due to town planning constraints, leading to political pressure on councils and state governments to remove planning regulations, regardless of their planning merit. We argue that this supply story is a myth and provide evidence against three key elements of the myth. First, there has been a surplus of dwellings constructed compared to population demand, rather than a shortage. Second, planning approvals typically far exceed dwelling construction, implying that more approvals or changes to planning controls on the density and location of development cannot accelerate the rate of new housing supply. Third, large increases in the rate of housing supply would have small price effects relative to other factors, like interest rates, and come with the opportunity cost of forgone alternative economic activities. Indeed, if the story were true, then property developers would be foolishly lobbying for policy changes that reduce the price of their product and the value of the balance sheets, which mostly comprise undeveloped land.","PeriodicalId":45599,"journal":{"name":"Australian Planner","volume":"57 1","pages":"1 - 12"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2019-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07293682.2021.1920991","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42003599","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The limits of spatial design in delivering inland decentralisation in Western Australia’s SuperTowns","authors":"J. Bolleter","doi":"10.1080/07293682.2019.1664605","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07293682.2019.1664605","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Since 2011, the Western Australian State Government has spent $85 million on its SuperTowns project that aimed to boost the population and viability of subregional centres or ‘SuperTowns.’ Using the Wheatbelt SuperTowns of Northam, Morawa, Katanning and Boddington this paper explores how local governments have employed spatial design interventions to shift the image of these inland towns in a bid to attract population from Western Australia’s major urban centres. Despite six years having elapsed since the government inaugurated the SuperTown policy, demographic data shows declining populations in these subregional centres. This paper highlights the limits of spatial design interventions in relation to delivering population decentralisation to inland towns.","PeriodicalId":45599,"journal":{"name":"Australian Planner","volume":"56 1","pages":"1 - 21"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2019-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07293682.2019.1664605","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41741646","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Resistance is fertile: exploring tiny house practices in Australia","authors":"Vicki Maree Weetman","doi":"10.1080/07293682.2019.1636837","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07293682.2019.1636837","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT For many Australians, the current crisis in housing affordability and availability has created an impasse in relation to the dream of home ownership. Having begun in America in the 1990s and emerged relatively recently in Australia, the tiny house movement is largely positioned as a direct response to this crisis. Currently, there is little research on the motivations of those in the movement who are living in a tiny house on wheels (or THOW) or other unregulated tiny house options. Based on a qualitative multi-methodological study involving a number of Australian tiny house dwellers, builders and advocates, this paper examines Australian tiny housing trends like the THOW that are outside of current regulations, focusing on how they are lived and experienced among obvious grey areas in current planning, building and housing codes. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, it draws on multiple conceptual perspectives to open out a discussion that moves beyond affordability and availability discourses to argue that such tiny house trends also represent different resistant and spatialising practices within the dominant housing model, creating politically autonomous zones. Offering a novel morphology of informal architecture, I further suggest that these resistant practices invite the development of different planning approaches and practices.","PeriodicalId":45599,"journal":{"name":"Australian Planner","volume":"55 1","pages":"232 - 240"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2018-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07293682.2019.1636837","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47925509","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The US tiny house on wheels movement with respect to a building code and relevance to Australia","authors":"C. Wenban","doi":"10.1080/07293682.2019.1634113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07293682.2019.1634113","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Explanation of applicable US regulation for Tiny Houses on Wheels, the latest changes to that regulation and parallels to Australian regulations.","PeriodicalId":45599,"journal":{"name":"Australian Planner","volume":"55 1","pages":"221 - 225"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2018-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07293682.2019.1634113","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45476653","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Tiny houses desirable or disruptive?","authors":"Stephanie Brokenshire","doi":"10.1080/07293682.2019.1634114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07293682.2019.1634114","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT What happens when tiny houses on wheels [THOW] disrupt the foundations on which we have built our planning and building industry? The very concept of a house being a transportable product seems to defy the planning and building framework we have constructed around our housing industry for decades. But rather than seeing them as disruptive and challenging, THOW could be a solution we’ve all been searching for to the wicked problem of affordable housing. In recent decades, the tiny house movement has flourished in Europe and America, with an industry of builders, designers, real estate agents and property owners tapping into the tiny economy. The establishment of Australian companies specialising in THOW shows there is a need for planning to catch up with market demand as houses are being constructed, yet certainty of obtaining approval varies considerably between local governments. A combination of planning, building and transport regulations are the largest barriers restricting the growth of THOW as an acceptable housing form in Australia. If tenancy of THOW can be legitimised through planning or building approvals, then regulatory red tape and various economic barriers such as the ability to obtain financing and insurance for THOW may be ameliorated.","PeriodicalId":45599,"journal":{"name":"Australian Planner","volume":"55 1","pages":"226 - 231"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2018-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07293682.2019.1634114","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46597284","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Micro-living: why occupants choose to live in very small dwellings?*","authors":"Emma Clinton","doi":"10.1080/07293682.2019.1632363","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07293682.2019.1632363","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT With persistent housing affordability issues in many parts of Australia, planners, designers and community members have begun to contemplate alternative housing options. One such option is micro-living, where occupants reside in dwellings that are significantly smaller than conventionally sized housing types. This paper explores the experience of occupants who have chosen to live in small, single-room and self-contained apartments sized between 24.5 and 28 m2 in Sydney. Using the results of a questionnaire survey and a series of interviews, the research reveals why occupants chose this housing type. The article highlights the trade-offs occupants make in their housing decision process and that affordability benefits of choosing smaller dwellings are not always guaranteed. This research has implications for minimum size requirements for emerging types of micro-living options such as tiny houses and micro-apartments.","PeriodicalId":45599,"journal":{"name":"Australian Planner","volume":"55 1","pages":"189 - 197"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2018-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07293682.2019.1632363","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44955648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editorial","authors":"H. Shearer","doi":"10.1080/07293682.2019.1665169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07293682.2019.1665169","url":null,"abstract":"Tiny houses are becoming increasingly popular, albeit mostly on social media and television. They have been mooted as a potential solution to a number of pressing urban issues, predominantly to ease housing affordability pressure, and as an environmentally sustainable urban densification option. Until recently however, there has been little academic research on the movement and subsequently they have not been seen as a viable housing alternative by government or planners. When tiny houses originated in the United States (US) in the late 1990s, and around a decade later in Australia, the tiny house movement was small and localised. However it has becoming mainstream, with increasing numbers of bespoke tiny house builders, a few local governments permitting them within their jurisdictions and a steady push for them to become a viable housing choice, particularly in urban areas subject to housing affordability pressures. But how realistic is the potential for tiny houses to address housing affordability problems in Australia? Certainly, there is strong demand for affordable housing and for alternative housing forms. Increasingly, research has shown that tiny houses appeal to a wide demographic, particularly single-person and couple households. The purpose of this Special Issue is to highlight the growing research into the tiny house movement, and the growing interest by planners and local government. It has a range of articles by academics, practising planners in the private and government sectors. Academic articles include ‘Tiny houses and planning regulation for housing alternatives: the context of regional Victoria’ (Butt and Stephenson) where the authors highlight that tiny houses can have significant frictions with regulatory systems that are orientated towards traditional orthodox housing models. The paper explores how Victorian planning law deals with non-conforming housing models. From a more theoretical perspective, ‘Bumps along the Road of the Tiny House Movement: Practitioner Notes with Critical Reflections’ (Alexander et al.) combines academic research with practical insights and learnings from tiny house builders in Victoria. The article highlights how Australian housing and urban policies, particularly those aimed at increasing residential density, can have multiple challenges, especially regarding social equity. From a Queensland perspective, the paper ‘Planning for tiny houses’ (Shearer et al.) explores the development of the Tiny House Planning Resource, using a South East Queensland case study to highlight how tiny houses can be incorporated within current planning schemes, to address issues such as urban infill and allow greater choice in housing supply and diversity. The paper, ‘Resistance is Fertile (Weetman) explores from a theoretical perspective, how the tiny house movement is a direct response to the housing affordability crisis in Australia, and how tiny houses are informal architecture, falling in a grey area in planning, ","PeriodicalId":45599,"journal":{"name":"Australian Planner","volume":"55 1","pages":"145 - 146"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2018-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07293682.2019.1665169","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44857600","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Innovative approaches to building housing system resilience: a focus on the Australian social and affordable housing system","authors":"J. Kraatz","doi":"10.1080/07293682.2019.1632361","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07293682.2019.1632361","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Housing is a complex, integrated network of social and economic infrastructure. Improving the overall provision, suitability and socio-economic resilience of our housing system is needed. This requires new typologies to accommodate changing demographics, and to address the critical issues of access and affordability. Current pressure across the housing system is resulting in long waiting lists for social housing and a lack of affordable rental housing. Meanwhile, we have an oversupply of some social housing types, indicating a mismatch between what is being supplied, and what is needed. Tiny houses, elder co-housing, inclusionary zoning and the use of vacant infrastructure are some of the emerging approaches available to address current system shortfalls and build future system resilience. Such innovations pose many challenges, including for our planning systems. This paper discusses these approaches, with a focus on both asset and social needs, in order to inform the development of a more accessible, robust and resilient social and affordable housing system. This is done in the context of recent research which developed social procurement criteria which aim to enable more expansive thinking by those developing policy and delivering outcomes in this space.","PeriodicalId":45599,"journal":{"name":"Australian Planner","volume":"55 1","pages":"174 - 185"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2018-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07293682.2019.1632361","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42756214","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Planning for tiny houses","authors":"H. Shearer, Valerie Bares, R. Pieters, Beth Winkle, Kate Meathrel","doi":"10.1080/07293682.2019.1632358","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07293682.2019.1632358","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The tiny house movement is an emerging trend towards building very small houses. It originated in the United States of America in the late 1990s, largely in response to housing affordability issues and a desire to live more sustainably. It is increasingly popular in Australia yet remains a niche market largely due to non-recognition within planning schemes and inconsistent local laws. Nonetheless, tiny houses could address some pressing urban housing problems, such as housing affordability and energy inefficiencies of poorly designed, large suburban houses. This paper reports on the development of the Tiny House Planning Resource for Australia, 2017, a collaborative report aimed at assisting planners, policy makers and the wider community to better understand the emerging tiny house movement and the model’s potential to contribute to greater choice in housing supply and diversity. It uses a case study focussing on South East Queensland (SEQ) to explore councils’ appetite and readiness regarding some tiny house options. It concludes tiny houses have significant potential to be a catalyst for infill development in the ‘missing middle’, either as tiny house villages, or by altering land use planning frameworks to allow both homeowners and tenants to situate well designed tiny houses on suburban lots.","PeriodicalId":45599,"journal":{"name":"Australian Planner","volume":"55 1","pages":"147 - 156"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2018-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07293682.2019.1632358","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44772079","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Tiny houses and planning regulation for housing alternatives: the context of regional Victoria","authors":"A. Butt, Carolyn Stephenson","doi":"10.1080/07293682.2019.1632359","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07293682.2019.1632359","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The emergence of ‘Tiny Houses’ as a dwelling and cultural phenomenon reveals significant frictions with regulatory systems orientated towards orthodox housing models. In this regard the tiny house movement shares a genealogy with traditions of self-build housing and more recent sustainable and affordable housing alternatives. In each instance, regulatory frameworks have created points of resistance, including a planning system that differentiates between various categories of permanent and temporary accommodation. In regional areas such tensions are apparent in various forms; fluidity between temporary and permanent residential uses, unregulated self-building and the use of non-residential structures for housing. We position Tiny Houses as a category of these conflicts, arguing that the regulatory intent of restricting dwellings has a range of purposes in Victorian planning law, including the protection of farmland, the regulation of wastewater and the maintenance of housing standards. This paper will utilise Victorian planning decisions and definitions to consider the way in which non-conforming housing models have been addressed in rural settings and credibility given to claims of sustainability and innovation in housing provision within the broader decision-making framework. The results suggest that varied housing is enabled by the planning system, however category issues remain regarding mobility, permanence and impact.","PeriodicalId":45599,"journal":{"name":"Australian Planner","volume":"55 1","pages":"157 - 163"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2018-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07293682.2019.1632359","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49382123","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}