Debbie Faulkner

Housing transitions through the life course: aspirations, needs and policy

Housing markets and policy in the 21st Century Housing over the life course: housing histories, careers, pathways and transitions Housing transitions and housing policy: international context and policy transfer The housing transitions of younger adults Housing transitions in mid-life Housing transitions in later life Housing transitions and disability Housing transitions, economic restructuring and the marginalised Conclusion: negotiating the housing market in the 21st Century.

The older population and changing housing careers: Implications for housing provision

As Australias population ages, housing is going to become an increasingly important issue for policy makers, developers, housing providers and service providers. Not only will there be demands for increasing numbers of houses but also increasing demands for greater choice, variety and greater expectations about the quality of that housing and the type of facilities associated with, or in close proximity to, that housing. Research emphasises an array of demographic, social, economic, personal and community factors along with cohort effects that influence the housing and living arrangement choices of older people. A clear understanding of these factors and the way they may interact in influencing housing decisions and transitions is essential if planning is to be effective. This paper provides an overview of our current understanding of the influences on the housing careers of the older population.

The housing transitions of young people in Australia: change, continuity and challenge

Chapter 1 Making Sense of the Housing Trajectories of Young People Ray Forrest Part 1 The Family, Demography and the Transition to Adulthood Chapter 2 Balancing Autonomy, Status and Family in the Transition to Adulthood: Class and Housing Aspects of the Southern European Model in Athens, 1987-2004 Dimitris Emmanuel Chapter 3 The First Steps into the Italian Housing System: Inequality between Generational Gaps and Family Intergenerational Transfers Teresio Poggio Chapter 4 The Housing Transitions of Young People in Australia: Change, Continuity and Challenge Andrew Beer and Debbie Faulkner Chapter 5 The Living Arrangements of Just Married Adults in Taiwan William Li Part 2 Housing Affordability and Youth Housing Trajectories Chapter 6 Youth Housing and Exclusion in Sweden Mats Lieberg Chapter 7 Homeownership, Cohort Trajectories and Hong Kongs Post-80 Generation Ngai-ming Yip Chapter 8 Youth Housing Problems in China Yapeng Zhu Part 3 Economic Change and Generational Fractures Chapter 9 Housing and Generational Fractures in Japan Yosuke Hirayama Chapter 10 Residential Trajectories of Young French People : The French Generational Gap Fanny Bugeja Chapter 11 Young Peoples Trajectories through Irish Housing Booms and Busts: Headship, Housing and Labour Market access among the under 30s since the Late 1960s Michelle Norris and Nessa Winston Chapter 12 The Lived Experience of Housing among Young People in Russia Jane Zavisca

Housing and the Environments of Ageing

The housing circumstances of older people in Australia are changing. The impact of the housing decisions the current older population and the baby boomers make will be felt across housing markets and the communities in which we live. How much and to what extent the housing and locational choices of the baby boomer generation will differ from preceding cohorts is yet to be established but overall they have greater means and opportunities to shape the lives they want to lead, the homes, places and communities in which they wish to live. This chapter provides an insight into the current housing circumstances of the older population, the influences on the direction of future housing and locational choices, and the need to move towards, and plan for, age-friendly communities if we are to optimise the ability of older people to actively age. The changes that are needed with regard to the provision of housing and the planning of communities will challenge policy makers across a number of policy arenas and at all levels of government. It will also require the collective foresight of the community in general to value ageing and the functionality, both physically and socially, of the locations and communities in which we live.

Regional variation in social isolation amongst older Australians

Regional studies globally has a strong focus on understanding the causes of variation in the economic performance and well-being of regions and this emphasis acknowledges that the strength of the local or regional economy plays a determinant role in shaping quality of life. Regional research has been less active in considering spatial variation in other factors that are critical to individual and societal well-being. For example, the regional studies community has been absent from the debate on the social determinants of health and how these influences vary spatially. This paper considers the results of a cross-sectional survey of Australians aged 65 years and over that focused on social connections and well-being. It examines regional variations in the incidence of social isolation within the older population. It finds that while the incidence of self-reported social isolation amongst older persons is broadly consistent with earlier studies, it demonstrates a spatial patterning that is unexpected. The paper considers community-building activities in addressing the impacts of social isolation, including the role of urban design, and suggests that there is a need to supplement the national overview presented there through more detailed studies focused on individual localities.

Ageing research in Australia: reflecting on Graeme Hugo’s four decades of contribution

ABSTRACT Globally, population ageing is one of the most pressing social and policy issues faced today. Over the next two decades, Australian society will face dramatic increases in the proportion of the population aged 65 years and over, as the baby boomers move into older age and fertility levels remain low. Yet population ageing is not a surprising or new trend—demographic changes in the age profile of a population tend to occur incrementally rather than suddenly. As a demographer and geographer, Graeme Hugo drew attention to this trend in Australia’s population more than three decades ago. Throughout Graeme Hugo’s vast breadth of work over the past 40 years, there has been a consistent thread of demographic analysis and academic thought associated with the ageing of Australia’s population. This paper focuses on Hugo’s contributions to academic thought and policy on Australia’s ageing population and the challenges associated with this for both service delivery and health policy as Australian society moves into an unprecedented era of population ageing.

Demographic change and housing choice

Thirty years ago housing markets in Australia were seen to be almost entirely driven by demographic processes, including marriage, household formation, the arrival of children and retirement within the family home. There is a growing awareness that housing markets in Australia—and therefore the residential planning process—are increasingly shaped by other social, economic and labour market processes (Beer, Faulkner and Gabriel 2006). Fundamentally, how Australians consume housing is changing—more Australians own holiday homes or rental properties than in the past, we are living longer and we are looking for different things when we purchase a home—but while we have some understanding of the direction and pace of change, we have little information about the relative size of these various tendencies and their impact on the housing market overall. This is a significant gap because governments need to plan for the efficient provision of services while the land development and housing construction industry needs to better understand the housing aspirations and expectations of all Australians. This paper presents insights into these processes.