The rhetoric and reality of housing choice: The role of urban consolidation
- 1 December 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Informa UK Limited in Urban Policy and Research
- Vol. 19 (4), 491-527
- https://doi.org/10.1080/08111140108727895
Abstract
In Australia, growth at the fringe has been seen as an inevitable response to a lack of affordable housing in the inner and middle zones of the major metropolitan cities. Urban consolidation was seen as one way of improving housing affordability and increasing housing choices and, at the same time, constraining outward growth. It will do so only if households forego past preferences for ownership of a detached house. This paper examines the contribution urban consolidation has made to meeting affordability and choice objectives by providing some insights into whether households are trading off tenure choices for lifestyle choices based on location and dwelling type. It also provides information on the extent of spatial polarisation of income that has contributed to the observed outcomes.Keywords
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