TY  - RPRT
AB  - This research found that Australian low income workers who work in the central city have to travel greater distances to get to work and are more likely to make a number of housing related compromises, such as living in a smaller dwelling, sharing with unrelated adults, or renting rather than buying. However, the effects of the housing challenges faced by low income central city workers are not currently registering on productivity and economic growth measurements in Australian cities.
AU  - Nouwelant, Ryan van den
AU  - Crommelin, Laura
AU  - Herath, Shanaka
AU  - Randolph, Bill
CY  - Melbourne
L1  - internal-pdf://1368846073/AHURI_Final_Report_No261_Housing affordability.pdf
M1  - 71032
M3  - FR
N1  - The research comprised a review of 2011 Census and other data as to the housing market position of the LICC labour force in five of Australia’s key metropolitan areas – Perth, Darwin, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, as well as series of interviews with employers in Sydney’s central city, and an analysis of the demand profile on recent infill development in the Sydney council area.

Spatial mismatch is not just a problem of income or affordability. Middle income workers travelled distances comparable or longer than low income central city workers.
Only one quarter of low income workers lived in low income households. This reflects the fact that many workers on low incomes are secondary income earners in their household. 
Six industries were identified as being vulnerable to a shortage of low income central city workers: hospitality, retail, support services (like travel and recruitment agencies), professional services (like legal and accounting), finance-insurance, and government services. Hospitality and retail were considered particularly vulnerable, with around 35 per cent of all low income central city workers in these industries.
New higher density supply (in Sydney) does provide housing for some low income central city workers, particularly temporary and student workers, who find high turnover rental markets and group household arrangements appropriate
Policy approaches to housing lower income central city workers in Australia and overseas are fragmented and not linked to economic strategies.
A number of factors appear to enable employers to overcome any problems of a lack of affordable housing options in central city locations:  good transport connections to cheaper housing, a supply of workers who dwell in middle and high-income households and other job opportunities so that low income workers might graduate to higher income work.
NV  - UNSW
PB  - Australian Housing and Urban ÂþÌìÌÃÈë¿Ú Institute Limited
PY  - 2016
RP  - The research comprised a review of 2011 Census and other data as to the housing market position of the LICC labour force in five of Australia’s key metropolitan areas – Perth, Darwin, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, as well as series of interviews with employers in Sydney’s central city, and an analysis of the demand profile on recent infill development in the Sydney council area.

Spatial mismatch is not just a problem of income or affordability. Middle income workers travelled distances comparable or longer than low income central city workers.
Only one quarter of low income workers lived in low income households. This reflects the fact that many workers on low incomes are secondary income earners in their household. 
Six industries were identified as being vulnerable to a shortage of low income central city workers: hospitality, retail, support services (like travel and recruitment agencies), professional services (like legal and accounting), finance-insurance, and government services. Hospitality and retail were considered particularly vulnerable, with around 35 per cent of all low income central city workers in these industries.
New higher density supply (in Sydney) does provide housing for some low income central city workers, particularly temporary and student workers, who find high turnover rental markets and group household arrangements appropriate
Policy approaches to housing lower income central city workers in Australia and overseas are fragmented and not linked to economic strategies.
A number of factors appear to enable employers to overcome any problems of a lack of affordable housing options in central city locations:  good transport connections to cheaper housing, a supply of workers who dwell in middle and high-income households and other job opportunities so that low income workers might graduate to higher income work.
ST  - Housing affordability, central city economic productivity and the lower income labour market
T2  - ÂþÌìÌÃÈë¿ÚFinal Report No. 261
TI  - Housing affordability, central city economic productivity and the lower income labour market
UR  - http://www.ahuri.edu.au/research/final-reports/261
ID  - 731
ER  -