The negative effects of urban agglomeration on housing affordability in Australia

• Published in: Australasian journal of regional studies Vol. 27; no. 1; pp. 26 - 46
• Main Authors: Vij, Akshay, Connor, Jeffery D, Beer, Andrew
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Armidale, NSW Australian and New Zealand Regional Science Association 01.01.2021; Regional Science Association, Australian and New Zealand Section; Regional Science Association
• Subjects: Affordable housing; Agglomeration; Analysis; Censuses; Cities; Cities and towns; Cost of living; Costs; Dwellings; Fiscal policy; Foreign investment; Geography; Housing; Housing costs; Housing market; Infrastructure (Economics); Land use planning; Low-income housing; Population; Population growth; Real estate sales; Sales; Urban areas; Wages & salaries; Working class; Australia

This study assesses the impacts of continued population growth in the largest Australian cities on housing affordability. Using data from the Australian census and other complementary sources over the period 2001-16, we estimate a system of seemingly unrelated and spatially lagged regressions to ide...