Overcrowded housing looms as a challenge for our cities
- Written by Shanaka Herath, Vice-Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Wollongong
The return of the historic problem of overcrowded dwellings points to a need in Australia for better understanding of the causes and regulatory responses.Jacob Riis (1889)
Overcrowding is an inevitable and often overlooked result of the affordable housing shortage in our cities.
When a dwelling requires four or more extra bedrooms to reasonably...
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