- Title
- Impediments and opportunities for growing the cooperative housing sector: an Australian case study
- Creator
- Crabtree, Louise; Perry, Neil; Grimstad, Sidsel; McNeill, Joanne
- Relation
- International Journal of Housing Policy Vol. 21, Issue 1, p. 138-152
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19491247.2019.1658916
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2021
- Description
- In many countries, housing cooperatives are longstanding and stable components of housing systems, providing a range of housing options that sit between the historically dual tenure poles of renting and owning. In others, such as Australia, cooperatives represent a very small proportion of total housing stock. Such differences derive from institutional lock-in resulting from market failures, government policy and historical norms. Breaking the institutional lock-in requires evidence of the benefits of cooperative housing to demonstrate the rationale for appropriate policy frameworks. However, despite their longevity in some countries, cooperatives remain relatively under-researched, such that their purported benefits as compared to other tenure forms can be hard to assess or compare. This article provides a brief synthesis of extant literature on the benefits of cooperatives before focusing on Australia where the sector is poised for growth from a very small base. We consider the impediments and opportunities for growing the sector in Australia, which highlight issues of potential relevance to other jurisdictions with similarly nascent cooperative sectors.
- Subject
- housing cooperatives; housing policy; comparative analysis; Australia
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1423745
- Identifier
- uon:37972
- Identifier
- ISSN:1949-1247
- Language
- eng
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