Kath Hulse

Private rental investment and socio‐spatial disadvantage in Sydney, Australia

Publisher: Wiley

Date: 19-02-2023

DOI: 10.1111/1745-5871.12591

Abstract: This article unpacks the connection between a growing cohort of small‐scale but purposive property investors and urban socio‐spatial restructuring. We analyse private rental housing as a tenure share to demonstrate its spatial correlation with the suburbanisation of socio‐economic disadvantage in Sydney, Australia, between 1991 and 2016. Then, we show how investors drive this emerging pattern by reference to the geography of property owners’ stated investment objectives—low capital outlay, rental yields, and capital growth prospects. We contend that the link between their small‐scale activities and the city’s changing socio‐spatial structure is an overlooked consequence of private rental sector (PRS) housing financialisation. Importantly, our focus on behaviours exhibited by small‐scale rental property owners in PRS financialisation transcends existing analyses that have concentrated on corporate entity activity in this space. That focus also contrasts with framings of private rental growth as a residual outcome of developments elsewhere in the housing market. Such work is significant because it demonstrates the impacts of real estate investment on urban form.

Individualised housing assistance: findings and policy options

Publisher: Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI)

Date: 30-08-2016

DOI: 10.18408/AHURI-4105001

The Everyman archetype: discursive reframing of private landlords in the financialization of rental housing

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 29-07-2019

DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1644297

Diffuse informality: uncovering renting within family households as a form of private rental

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 26-07-2022

DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2022.2101623

Private rental in transition: Institutional change, technology and innovation in Australia

Publisher: Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI)

Date: 04-04-2018

DOI: 10.18408/AHURI-5112101

The supply of affordable private rental housing in Australian cities: short-term and longer-term changes

Publisher: Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI)

Date: 12-2019

DOI: 10.18408/AHURI-5120101

The changing institutions of private rental housing: an international review

Publisher: Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI)

Date: 24-01-2018

DOI: 10.18408/AHURI-7112201

Private Renting in a Home-owning Society: Disaster, Diversity or Deviance?

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 07-05-2019

DOI: 10.1080/14036096.2018.1467964

The potential of new technologies to disrupt housing policy

Publisher: Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI)

Date: 04-12-2019

DOI: 10.18408/AHURI-7115001

An Australian rental housing conditions research infrastructure

Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Date: 02-02-2022

DOI: 10.1038/S41597-022-01136-5

Abstract: Each year the proportion of Australians who rent their home increases and, for the first time in generations, there are now as many renters as outright homeowners. Researchers and policy makers, however, know very little about housing conditions within Australia’s rental housing sector due to a lack of systematic, reliable data. In 2020, a collaboration of Australian universities commissioned a survey of tenant households to build a data infrastructure on the household and demographic characteristics, housing quality and conditions in the Australian rental sector. This data infrastructure was designed to be national (representative across all Australian States and Territories), and balanced across key population characteristics. The resultant Australian Rental Housing Conditions Dataset (ARHCD) is a publicly available data infrastructure for researchers and policy makers, providing a basis for national and international research.

Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP150102582

Start Date: 05-2015

End Date: 06-2018

Amount: $280,275.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0883848

Start Date: 12-2008

End Date: 12-2011

Amount: $108,728.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP210103471

Start Date: 07-2021

End Date: 06-2024

Amount: $291,012.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP140101685

Start Date: 2014

End Date: 06-2017

Amount: $330,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment And Facilities - Grant ID: LE190100132

Start Date: 06-2019

End Date: 03-2021

Amount: $372,210.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment And Facilities - Grant ID: LE160100056

Start Date: 06-2016

End Date: 02-2018

Amount: $190,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council