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This paper endeavours to elucidate some of the connections between housing and society through a review of recent debates on social change, demography and housing, and by reference to an applied study of demographic change and housing policy in Northern Ireland. The paper finds that demographic change and labour market restructuring, in combination, have been crucial factors in the transformation of the nature of social housing provision which is better described as part of a wider socio-tenurial polarisation than as state policy-driven residualisation., Introduction Demographic analysis is widely recognised as an important element of the study of housing. Most researchers have utilised official definitions of households as the basic units of housing consumption [...]

An analysis of census data shows significant differences between the Australian urban regional system and those of North America and Europe, and it remains to be seen whether Australian urban and regional change will resemble those of advanced nations, due to global changes in several fields. Counter-urbanization has resulted in a change in the Australian urban and regional system. This thesis is flawed, but there has been a significant restructuring of the Australian urban and regional system since the rapid growth of coastal consumption centers and suburban development.

Power, Anne and John Houghton. Jigsaw Cities: Big Places, Small Spaces. Bristol: Policy Press, 2007. 264 pp. ISBN: 9781861346582 (pbk); ISBN: 9781861346589 (cloth). Hall, Sir Peter. London Voices, London Lives: [...]

Developments relating to the proposed Very Fast Train train service between Sydney and Melbourne are chronicled. The proposed project is supposed to be funded, built and managed entirely by the private sector. It is currently on hold, however, because of the Australian government's hesitancy to endorse the proposal and the restrictive taxation system on private investments in new infrastructures. Environmental and land acquisition issues have to be involved also if the train system is to push through.

ELIZABETH HOWE, 1994 New Jersey: Centre for Urban Policy Research 395 pp., 29.95pounds hardback ISBN 0 88285 147 0 This, in many ways, is a stimulating analysis of ethical questions [...]

The paper aims to provide a critical evidence-based assessment of the changing nature of second homes in Australia. It conducts a comparative historical analysis of the evolution of second homes in Australia and the emergence of the holiday rental industry. There was widespread second home ownership in Australia by the 1960s, primarily for private family use, largely involving self-construction of modest cottages or 'shacks'. There has been much less growth of second home ownership by 2014 than was predicted in the 1970s, but the sector has become increasingly focused in coastal areas, moved significantly up-market, and emerged into a hybrid form of dwelling ownership involving use for both leisure and investment. The paper demonstrates a need to reconceptualise the nature of second homes in Australia and elsewhere as items of private consumption and commercial investment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]