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Jessica Porter UniSA Business School - School of Commerce PhD Scholar

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Moonee Valley Workshop 1 May 2018

Is there a housing affordability crisis in non-metropolitan Australia?

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Across the State and Territories

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Research Question

What are the governmentalities of affordable housing policies in non-metropolitan Australia and how are these policies mediated by local government?

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A governmentality approach identifies the rationalities behind strategies adopted to enhance the productivity of populations, as well as the various ‘technologies’ employed to achieve desired outcomes (Lucas, 2011). It provides an avenue to explore the link between policy and practice at the microlevel and investigate ‘potential disjuncture between top-down, universalistic plans and empirical reality’ (Bang & Esmark, 2010).

Linking go g gover ernmen entality to to this r resea earch:

Problematisation = lack of affordable housing Rationality = increase supply of affordable housing through land use planning systems Technologies = affordable housing policies

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Research D Design

Data ata Collect ction Two Phases: Ph Phase 1a Collection of ABS data from 2001 to 2016. Ph Phase 1b Collection and analysis of textual data. Ph Phase 2 Face-to-face semi-structured interviews. Da Data A Analysis Nvivo (computer-assisted qualitative analysis program). Comparative analysis of research areas.

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Expec ected ed O Outcom

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This research will:

• build on existing kno

nowledg dge by providing a non-metropolitan perspective to existing scholarship on affordable housing, governance, governmentality, local government, policy development and implementation in non- metropolitan Australia.

• provide a theoretic

ical contrib ibutio ion to governmentality literature, by providing an Australian perspective and applying a realist governmentality approach in an affordable housing context.

• provide practical contrib

ibutio ion, that will furnish academics, policymakers and state/local government with a clear understanding of current governance structures and their impact on affordable housing policy in non- metropolitan Australia and how it is working in the “real world”.

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In addition…

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Thank you

jessica.mowatt@mymail.unisa.edu.au

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Referen ences es

Bang, H & Esmark, A 2010, ‘Governmentality and the Political (System)’, Administrative Theory & Praxis, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 262–268. Beer, A 2017, A housing affordability crisis in regional Australia? Yes, and here’s why, The Conversation viewed 22 June 2017, <http://theconversation.com/a-housing-affordability-crisis-in- regional-australia-yes-and-heres-why-71808>. Costello, L 2009, ‘Urban–Rural Migration: housing availability and affordability’, Australian Geographer, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 219–233. Lucas, PV 2011, ‘The rhetoric of partnerships involving people who use illicit drugs and the reality of ‘partners’ experience’, PhD Thesis, June 2011, University of Tasmania. Webber, K 2016, Rental affordability report shows regional Australia not necessarily a better option, ABC News, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, viewed 22 June 2017, <http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-21/rental-affordability-report-shows-regional-not-better-

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