Abstract
There are four sections to the paper. The first sets out to attribute the overconcentration of public housing in the outermost suburbs to a range of Commonwealth and state measures which acted to foster, and then perpetuate, the provision of public housing at the edge of major Australian cities throughout the 1950s and 1960s. The second section briefly indicates how this poorly located public housing redistributes real income away from its occupants, and leads to spatial discrimination amongst the recipients of housing assistance. Next, the revision of state housing policy undertaken during the 1970s in Australia and the corresponding shift in the South Australian Housing Trust's objectives is described. The final section explores the ways in which welfare housing provision is being obstructed by the perverse nature of structural change and state intervention.
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