This course focuses on the Australian market-based system of housing provision. It is a system featuring a high rate of home ownership, a large dynamic private rental market, a small residualised and stigmatised public housing system and a small emergent community housing sector. The course examines key contemporary issues such as change in access to owner occupation, increased levels of housing stress in the private rental market, shortages of public housing and increasing levels of homelessness and their policy contexts. You will be encouraged in discussions and in assessable work to make connections between the study of housing in this course and professional work in the planning, environmental policy, public policy, property and human services fields.