Livable Housing Design: The voluntary provision of inclusive housing in Australia
This paper reports on a study of the voluntary provision of inclusive housing. The impetus for the study is the Livable Housing Design initiative, an agreement among Australian housing industry and community leaders in 2010 to a national guideline and voluntary strategy with a target to provide min...
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2014-06-01
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| description | This paper reports on a study of the voluntary provision of inclusive housing. The impetus for the study is the Livable Housing Design initiative, an agreement among Australian housing industry and community leaders in 2010 to a national guideline and voluntary strategy with a target to provide
minimum access features in all new housing by 2020. Situated in and around Brisbane, Australia, the study problematises the assumption that the housing industry will respond voluntarily; an assumption which this study concludes is unfounded. The Livable Housing Design initiative asks individual agents to consider the needs of people beyond the initial contract, to proceed with objective reasoning and to do the right thing voluntarily. Instead, the study found that interviewees focused on their immediate contractual obligations, were reluctant to change established practices and saw little reason to do more than was legally required of them. This paper argues that the highly-competitive and risk-averse nature of the industry works against a voluntary approach for inclusive housing and, if the 2020 target of the Livable Housing Design. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-16aec0a91e874a11844ba5e38a07a9b82022-12-22T03:46:42ZengGriffith UniversityJournal of Social Inclusion1836-88082014-06-01514360366Livable Housing Design: The voluntary provision of inclusive housing in AustraliaMargaret Louise WardJill FranzBarbara AdkinsThis paper reports on a study of the voluntary provision of inclusive housing. The impetus for the study is the Livable Housing Design initiative, an agreement among Australian housing industry and community leaders in 2010 to a national guideline and voluntary strategy with a target to provide minimum access features in all new housing by 2020. Situated in and around Brisbane, Australia, the study problematises the assumption that the housing industry will respond voluntarily; an assumption which this study concludes is unfounded. The Livable Housing Design initiative asks individual agents to consider the needs of people beyond the initial contract, to proceed with objective reasoning and to do the right thing voluntarily. Instead, the study found that interviewees focused on their immediate contractual obligations, were reluctant to change established practices and saw little reason to do more than was legally required of them. This paper argues that the highly-competitive and risk-averse nature of the industry works against a voluntary approach for inclusive housing and, if the 2020 target of the Livable Housing Design.https://josi.journals.griffith.edu.au/index.php/inclusion/article/view/385 |
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| title | Livable Housing Design: The voluntary provision of inclusive housing in Australia |
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| title_short | Livable Housing Design: The voluntary provision of inclusive housing in Australia |
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| url | https://josi.journals.griffith.edu.au/index.php/inclusion/article/view/385 |
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