.id Housing series Part 2 | Downsizing to the good life
As you grow older, do you want to stay in the suburb you’re familiar with? Through our work with the City of Moonee Valley, we found that many residents would like to age in...
As you grow older, do you want to stay in the suburb you’re familiar with? Through our work with the City of Moonee Valley, we found that many residents would like to age in...
Recently, our Housing and Economics team uncovered some surprising trends in household sizes in some growth areas – trends that have important implications for planning, infrastructure and service delivery in those communities. This piece will...
In a recent survey conducted by social researchers Ipsos, Housing was revealed as the fastest growing issue of the top five issues concerning Australians. This is the first in a series of blogs in which we’ll...
The topic of Homelessness is one of the most frequently raised during our briefings to councils and communities across the country. On March 14th, the ABS released ‘Estimating Homelessness‘. This eagerly anticipated publication comes...
.id was recently commissioned to undertake a study looking at greenfield developments to better understand the likely demographic composition as these estates become fully developed and begin to age. The results of the study...
Famously labelled by Australian artist Courtney Barnett, ‘Depreston’ echoes the sentiment of a larger issue plaguing the wider metropolitan area of Melbourne. Barnett sings of the juxtaposition of an area skyrocketing in value to...
Metropolitan Melbourne is experiencing unprecedented population growth and remains an attractive destination for migrants from regional Victoria, interstate and overseas. Because of this, suburbs on the fringe of the city are also experiencing substantial...
You would think, at a glance, that pin-striped property developers and avocado-addicted, socially-progressive millennials would make for rather strange bedfellows. However, in recent years, an international, grass-roots community movement has seen the latter take...
In my previous article, I looked at the amazing result from the 2016 Census, that showed housing loan repayments across the country, and particularly for first home buyers, have not increased over time. In...
This year .id had the chance to work with two different areas in Victoria’s South-West – Warrnambool and Colac Otway. One area is a medium-sized coastal regional city that services a large share of...
Greater Sydney, that’s where! The Local Government Areas (LGAs) of Greater Sydney have dominated the children in apartments market in 2016. The table below shows the top 10 LGAs with the highest concentration of...
It seems you can’t open a newspaper (does anyone do that anymore?), look at a website, or watch the TV news without seeing some story about housing affordability. Evil negative gearing investors are driving...
If .id had a dollar for every time someone asked us about families with children living in apartments, we could probably shut our doors and retire comfortably. But in all seriousness, it’s a real...
There has been a lot of talk about housing affordability in recent years, particularly housing affordability for young people. There is no doubt that housing is extremely expensive to own or rent in our...
Vacant dwellings seem to get a bad rap in the mainstream press and social media – they are blamed for housing affordability issues, for having negative social outcomes in coastal areas and are even associated...
In a recent case study, we discovered Toowoomba is on the up and up. As a regional centre, Toowoomba has invested in infrastructure and fostered an entrepreneurial business culture. Now, a growing number of...
The 2015-16 release of “Regional Internal Migration Estimates” hardly makes a ripple each year when released by the ABS. But this year’s release tells a powerful story. Housing affordability There is a lot of...
As Australia’s population grows, the way Australians consume housing is changing. The surge in higher density residential development means that more households than ever are living in smaller homes than the past. In this...
What do London, Melbourne, Sydney and Toronto have in common? Dense and expensive housing. Following the footsteps of these big cities we have a love/hate relationship with, the New Zealand Government recently launched consultation...
In a rapidly growing and gentrifying area, what are the implications for community facilities? To answer this question, our consulting team took a deep dive into the changing housing market in Footscray, a rapidly...