Smart cities could give the visually impaired a new outlook on urban life
Sep 17, 2019 17:24 pm UTC| Insights & Views Real Estate
Travelling to work, meeting friends for a catch up or just doing some shopping are often taken for granted by people with no known disabilities. For the visually impaired, these seemingly simple things can be a serious...
How buildings in Johannesburg could benefit from green roofs
Sep 10, 2019 20:38 pm UTC| Insights & Views Real Estate
There are about 500,000 square metres of green space in Chicago in the United States. Many of these are visible, not on the ground, but on building roofs across the city. Green roofs can be seen in a number of other cities...
Rudd's rental affordability scheme was a $1 billion gift to developers; Abbott was right to axe it
Sep 10, 2019 20:38 pm UTC| Insights & Views Real Estate Politics
Most Australians are spending more of their income on housing than they used to, but low-income households are being squeezed the hardest. Many are in poverty, and many more are suffering financial stress. A growing...
Aug 26, 2019 04:23 am UTC| Insights & Views Real Estate
Since 2000, planning authorities in Australia have overseen a massive rezoning of inner-city industrial land to make way for mixed-use residential development. They claim central industrial space is obsolete in a...
First home buyer schemes aren't enough to meet young adults' housing aspirations
Aug 15, 2019 17:36 pm UTC| Insights & Views Real Estate
Young adults not only struggle to buy a home, many struggle to secure any kind of independent housing. This contributes to a cycle of living in precarious and informal housing and to a growing gap between their current...
Focus on managing social housing waiting lists is failing low-income households
Aug 06, 2019 03:52 am UTC| Insights & Views Real Estate Politics
A need to manage waiting lists, rather than ensuring positive outcomes for tenant households, strongly influences social housing policy, newly published research finds. This situation is not only a result of operational...
A century of public housing: building homes, not just houses, takes more than bricks and mortar
Aug 01, 2019 04:35 am UTC| Insights & Views Real Estate
Good quality, affordable housing is of vital importance to peoples sense of identity, health and general well being. But in the UK we dont have sufficient housing that is affordable, of sufficient quality, and in places...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects