IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/sae/urbstu/v20y1983i4p439-453.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

An Analysis of Housing Subsidy Schemes in Australia

Author

Listed:
  • S.N. Tucker

    (Division of Building Research, Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organization, Melbourne, Australia)

Abstract

The affordability problems of acquiring home ownership in Australia have attracted much attention in recent years. This has led to many suggested (and some implemented) schemes to reduce these problems either by restructuring loan repayments or by providing subsidies to selected groups of people who are in most need of assistance to buy their own homes. There has been little attempt to measure the cost to the government of these latter subsidy schemes. This study continues a previous theoretical analysis which quantifies cash flow profiles over the lifetime of houses, taking into account detailed estimates of housing costs, the characteristics of the size of loan, distribution of loan sizes with income, the length of residence and whether the loan is for a first or subsequent home. Comparison of schemes for subsidising home ownership, identification of significant differences in costs, both annual and lifetime, and assessment from the governmental viewpoint are demonstrated by examples.

Suggested Citation

  • S.N. Tucker, 1983. "An Analysis of Housing Subsidy Schemes in Australia," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 20(4), pages 439-453, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:urbstu:v:20:y:1983:i:4:p:439-453
    DOI: 10.1080/00420988320080801
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1080/00420988320080801
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/00420988320080801?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Max Neutze, 1972. "The Cost of Housing," The Economic Record, The Economic Society of Australia, vol. 48(3), pages 357-373, September.
    2. repec:bla:ecorec:v:48:y:1972:i:123:p:357-73 is not listed on IDEAS
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Nigel Stapledon, 2012. "Trends and Cycles in Sydney and Melbourne House Prices from 1880 to 2011," Australian Economic History Review, Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand, vol. 52(3), pages 293-317, November.
    2. G.M. Neutze, 1974. "The Case for New Cities in Australia," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 11(3), pages 259-275, October.
    3. Ferguson, Ian S., 1973. "Forecasting The Future For Timber," Australian Journal of Agricultural Economics, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, vol. 17(3), pages 1-11, December.
    4. Nigel Stapledon, 2010. "A History of Housing Prices in Australia 1880-2010," Discussion Papers 2010-18, School of Economics, The University of New South Wales.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sae:urbstu:v:20:y:1983:i:4:p:439-453. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: SAGE Publications (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/urbanstudiesjournal .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.