Housing and the Built Environment: Environmental Health Issues in Australia

Running head: HOUSING AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT
Housing and the Built Environment
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HOUSING AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT
Table of Contents
Part 1..........................................................................................................................................2
Description of the selected issue............................................................................................2
Driving forces.........................................................................................................................2
Pressure..................................................................................................................................3
State Changes.........................................................................................................................3
Exposure.................................................................................................................................3
Effects of the environmental health issue..............................................................................4
Social, Political and economic influences..............................................................................4
Part 2..........................................................................................................................................4
Current Situation of Environmental health issue...................................................................4
Suggestions to Address Identified Gaps................................................................................6
References..................................................................................................................................7

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HOUSING AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT
Part 1
Description of the selected issue
It has been estimated from the Australian Bureau of Statistics Household and family
projections (ABS 2015b) that the number of households that are currently resident in
Australia have a high increasing rate and the increase in the number of households would
increase by 3.7 million and 4 million from 2006 to 2031 as per estimation ("5206.0 -
Australian National Accounts: National Income, Expenditure and Product, Mar 2018", 2018).
There are various types of housing facilities that are adopted by the people of Australia such
as the Detached housing, free-standing housing which have be located on the quarter-acre
building and these type of housing has been lending an predominant feature for the urban
development within the country. The population density of the country has been comprising
of around 20% of the total housing for the urban history of Australia. The Australian
government has also increased the density of the high housing that would help the people of
Australia to obtain higher level of housing types. In addition to this, the due to history of low
density planning by the Australian government the most common type of housing for the
general population in the country are the detached homes. Additionally, there has been semi-
detached dwellings for about 9% in the country and units and apartment account for around
13 per cent in the country ("5206.0 - Australian National Accounts: National Income,
Expenditure and Product, Mar 2018", 2018). Overall for the major change in the type of
housing density for the country has taken a long time and huge improvement is required for
the full development in the country.
Driving forces
The major driving forces towards the development of the housing and building
environment in the country basically is dependent on the sustainability concerns in the