Thursday 29 August 2013

An Overview on Social Housing in Australia

Departments of both territory and state governments generally provide social housing in the Australian continent. It operates within the ambit of Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement. Funds for these social housing Australia is taken care of by both state and federal governments.
According to the 2006 census, public housing stock in Australia consisted of 304,000 houses. The total housing stock was more than 7.1 million houses.
The public housing in the continent vary from inner-city medium to high-rise apartments, and fully detached houses or low-density townhouses. These are located on planned estates that during the time of construction would be suburban peripheries of towns and cities.
The inner-city public dwellings are mostly in the Sydney and Melbourne location. These comprise of 3 to 5 storied walk-up flats and 11-22 storied high-rise skyscrapers. There is an array of low-density suburban estates throughout the continent. You can find them with ease in every city of Australia. Many low-density public houses have been sold to tenants that have been in occupation of the premises for a long time. However, several have been circulating in the real estate market at exorbitant prices in posh suburban areas.
The history of social housing dates back to somewhere in 1945 to 1980, when most houses were built. These were built to house soldiers returned and their families from World War II. The high-rise housing constructed in 1950 to 1960 in Sydney and Melbourne was to upgrade the standard of living of inner-suburbs. In the recent years, not-for-profit public housing has given a number of tenant’s affordable houses.

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