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Boarding houses and Government supply side intervention

Greenhaigh, Emma

Boarding houses and Government supply side intervention - Australia Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) March 2004 - 76 pages

KEYWORDS: boarding houses, lodging houses, boarders and lodgers, housing market, housing affordability, government planning

This report presents research undertaken by the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) Qld, Sydney and Southern Research Centres. The research investigates the supply side strategies being implemented by State and Local Governments to ameliorate boarding house decline.

This project seeks to answer three main questions:
* What are the costs of boarding house decline in metropolitan Australia for residents and government?
* What strategies are available to governments to support boarding house providers (essentially the private market and community housing organisations) and so reduce the level of decline? and
* What are the likely impacts and costs of these government strategies?
A fourth question developed during the investigation, namely:
* What are the likely costs to residents and Government of Government non-intervention?

The project was undertaken in the metropolitan areas of Queensland, New South Wales and Tasmania.

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