Getting our house in order? BCEC Housing Affordability Report 2019
The Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre (BCEC) invites you to the launch of the BCEC’s next report in the Focus on WA series, Getting our house in order? BCEC Housing Affordability Report 2019 with special guest speaker, the Hon. Peter Tinley AM, Minister for Housing; Veterans Issues; Youth; Asian Engagement.
Getting our house in order? will present findings from the third BCEC Housing Affordability Survey. The research will also deliver new insights into how housing affordability has changed across the three surveys providing a very useful resource for government and industry in identifying how market changes and interventions impact household affordability outcomes.
The report will be launched featuring a presentation by Associate Professor Steven Rowley, Director – Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute – Curtin Research Centre and Professor Alan Duncan, Director, Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre.
Please join us for lunch with our esteemed panel, Michelle Mackenzie, Chief Executive Officer, Shelter WA; Paul Graham, Chief Executive Officer, Keystart Loans and Cath Hart, Executive Director, Housing Industry Association WA, in a facilitated discussion with Nadia Mitsopoulos, Journalist and Presenter, ABC Radio Perth.
Further Information
Getting our house in order?
This report by the Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre focuses on housing affordability, one of the most important economic and social issues facing Western Australia, and indeed the country. This twelfth report in BCEC’s Focus on WA series builds on the Centre’s earlier... Read article
Housing stress easing for home owners but still an issue for renters
— Rents not falling in line with WA’s softening housing market — — Policy intervention is required to generate a sustained supply of affordable housing — Low-income earners and single parents are among the Australian households who are regularly struggling... Read article
Housing Affordability in Western Australia: A comparative analysis
This research project builds on the successful research program delivered through collaboration between BCEC and the School of Economics and Finance which resulted in the “Housing Affordability: The real costs of housing in WA” report published in April 2014. It... Read article
The Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre team acknowledges the Wadjuk Nyungar people as the traditional owners of the land on which the Centre is situated.