One of the significant changes in the finance of social housing in the 1980s was an attempt to place increased responsibility for this funding on the private sector. This paper argues that governments need to continue their involvement in the provision of social housing finance as this movement...

This paper provides an initial assessment of the Federal Government's initiatives in revamping the home purchase assistance available to first home buyers. It acknowledges that the current scheme is a considerable improvement on its predecessors in that it has overcome many of the objections...