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Housing Policy Retrenchment: Australia and Canada Compared

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    (Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute Centre, RMIT University, PO Box 2476V, Melbourne, Victoria, 3001, Australia, tony.dalton@rmit.edu.au)

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Housing policy has declined in importance relative to other areas of state policy-making in many Western countries. This paper seeks to understand why this has happened at a time when there has been a decline in the level of housing affordability and supply of affordable rental housing. It presents an argument that a way of understanding this policy retrenchment, through a comparative analysis of Australian and Canadian housing systems, is to consider the way in which housing policy problems are defined, how policy-making capacity is institutionalised in state agencies and the form and extent of civil society mobilisation on housing issues. It is not sufficient to ascribe the declining salience of housing policy to the ascendancy of neo-liberal ideas in policy-making.

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  • Tony Dalton, 2009. "Housing Policy Retrenchment: Australia and Canada Compared," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 46(1), pages 63-91, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:urbstu:v:46:y:2009:i:1:p:63-91
    DOI: 10.1177/0042098008098637
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