Lucy’s
Publications
Equitable Housing
July 25, 2024
Submission to the Treasury Laws Amendment (Build To Rent) Bill 2024 and Capital Works (Build To Rent Misuse Tax) Bill 2024
In April/May 2024 CEH made a submission to the Treasury’s consultation into the Treasury Laws Amendment Bill 2024 exposure draft. In response to the revised legislation introduced to Parliament in June 2024 we make some additional comments here.
Equitable Housing
May 27, 2024
Treasury Build to Rent Concessions Submission
The CEH welcomes the Government’s announcement that investment in the Build-To-Rent sector would be supported through tax concessions.
Equitable Housing
May 27, 2024
Help to Buy Bill 2024 (Qld) Submission
The Help to Buy Scheme gives prospective first home buyers not living in social housing in Queensland the opportunity to access shared equity homeownership.
Equitable Housing
April 15, 2024
Submission to Everybody’s Home: People’s Commission into the Housing Crisis
In early 2024, Everybody’s Home convened a 'People’s Commission into the Housing Crisis'.
Equitable Housing
October 31, 2023
The National Housing and Homelessness Plan: A historic opportunity not to be missed
The development of a new NHHP presents the Federal Government with an historic opportunity to reshape Australia’s broken housing system, to modernise it for the needs of contemporary Australia and to leave a lasting legacy for future generations.
Equitable Housing
August 31, 2023
Light as Air: Regulating Short Term Rentals in Australia
The impact of short-term rental (STR) platforms such as Airbnb has become increasingly problematic, particularly since the end of the COVID-19 lockdowns, as long-term rental dwelling availability has shrunk, and prices increased.
Equitable Housing
August 15, 2023
Regulating Rentals in Australia: what works?
This paper examines the data to establish if there is, indeed, a rental crisis in Australia, and surveys local and international research to determine what would work to improve the experience of renting a home in the Australian market.
Equitable Housing
June 22, 2023
Glass Ceilings: Gendered Inequality in the Housing System – The Australian Housing Monitor, Report 2
This paper explores some of the gendered inequalities within the housing system, based on the Australian Housing Monitor, a recent survey of nearly 4000 people. Differences in how men and women experience affordability, security, and quality of housing are evident across nearly every metric.
Homepage Feature
November 21, 2022
Evidence Based Policy Project 2022
The Evidence Based Policy project highlights how policy design frequently fails to incorporate the best available evidence, or policy development practices.
November 14, 2021
Evidence Based Policy Analysis 2021
This report is part of the Evidence Based Policy Analysis Project, now in its fourth year. Per Capita was commissioned, alongside the Institute of Public Affairs, to provide analysis of a number of Australian policies introduced at a state and federal level over the last year.
Lucy’s
Podcasts
Podcast
November 21, 2023
Re:CAP – Lighter than Air: Regulating Short Term Rentals
Welcome back to Re:CAP – Per Capita’s premier podcast where we unpack our latest research and examine the inequalities in Australian society. This week, Matt Lloyd-Cape is joined by Per Capita’s Andrew Herington Fellow, Lucy Tonkin, to chat about the impact of short-term rental (STR) platforms such as AirBnB on the Australian rental market, and ... Read more
Podcast
November 7, 2023
Re:CAP – Regulating Rentals
Welcome back to Re:CAP – Per Capita’s premier podcast where we unpack our latest research and examine the inequalities in Australian society. This week, Matt Lloyd-Cape is joined by Per Capita’s Andrew Herington Fellow, Lucy Tonkin, and Research Economist, Sam Ibrahim, to chat about the CEH’s Regulating Rentals paper. With almost a third of households ... Read more
Podcast
September 5, 2023
Re:CAP – Glass Ceilings: Gendered Inequality in the Housing System
Welcome back to Re:CAP – Per Capita’s premier podcast where we unpack our latest research and examine the inequalities in Australian society. This week, Emma Dawson is joined by Per Capita’s Andrew Herington Fellow, Lucy Tonkin, to chat about the Centre for Equitable Housing’s second paper from their Australian Housing Monitor – Glass Ceilings: Gendered ... Read more
Lucy’s
Media
Our Media
November 19, 2022
Poor report card for policymakers
An independent review of 20 major decisions by the federal, NSW, Queensland and Victorian governments during 2022 found only five reached “acceptable” processes, six decisions failed and the remainder received only “mediocre” results.
Lucy’s
Blog Posts
Blog
August 6, 2024
National Housing and Homelessness Plan: Realising Human Right to Adequate Housing.
This week is Homelessness Week, an annual event hosted by Homelessness Australia aiming to raise awareness and build commitment towards ending homelessness. The theme of this year’s Homelessness Week is “Homelessness Action Now”. It must serve as a reminder of the urgent need to change the future state of housing and homelessness in Australia. In ... Read more
Blog
July 31, 2024
No-grounds evictions; leaders and stragglers
In July 2024, New South Wales Premier Chris Minns announced that a ban on “no-grounds” evictions would be introduced to Parliament in the following month. Under the proposed changes, landlords would have to meet “common-sense and reasonable” grounds for eviction, including the sale of the property and instances of misconduct by tenants. What are ... Read more
Blog
July 3, 2023
When it comes to housing wealth, being a man pays dividends
By Matt Lloyd-Cape and Lucy Tonkin. Open a newspaper on any day and you’ll be met with a new story about Australia’s housing crisis. How older women are the fastest growing cohort to experience homelessness, or that female heads of lone parent households are most likely to experience significant and prolonged housing stress. But we ... Read more