ABSTRACT

Within the wider affordability crisis affecting major cities throughout the world, share housing has become increasingly important, potentially expanding capacity in the private rental sector. But share housing is difficult to monitor and research, embedded in various forms of tenancy and household arrangements within the wider housing system. Online rental platforms which increasingly enable and facilitate the share housing sector may also offer a critical window into its operation. This paper examines this possibility with reference to Sydney, Australia, drawing on listings scraped from share housing platform “Flatmates.com.au” to determine the scale and distribution of shared housing vacancies relative to the city’s wider housing market. Our findings demonstrate rising dependence on share housing as a source of lower-cost rental supply near employment and education but raise questions about share accommodation as a long-term housing solution.

抽象的

在影响全球主要城市的更广泛的负担能力危机中，共享住房变得越来越重要，有可能扩大私人租赁部门的能力。但是，共享住房很难被监控和研究，它被嵌入到更广泛的住房体系中的各种形式的租赁和家庭安排中。越来越多地为共享住房领域提供支持和便利的在线租赁平台也可能为其运营提供重要的窗口。本文参考澳大利亚悉尼的情况，利用从共享住房平台“ Flatmates.com.au”上刮取的清单来研究这种可能性，以确定相对于城市更广阔的住房市场而言，共享住房空置的规模和分布。