There has been much discussion lately about housing affordability and in particular with key workers. For the purposes of this blog post, we will focus on key workers as being nurses, teachers, police, firefighters and paramedics - all of which are important roles for our community and many of those roles tend to be located in some of Perth's more expensive suburbs. So how far should a key worker commute to work, just to serve the community in which you live? Those of you who

I attended an interesting UDIA lunch where the topic of housing affordability was the key point of discussion. What I thought was most interesting, was that Housing Minister Colin Holt showed a map of Perth and in 2001, most suburbs, other than those within 10kms of the City were deemed affordable. In 2011, the only suburb regarded as affordable was in fact Kwinana. Certainly home ownership is still a romantic ideal for most West Australians, but for some – it could take 11 y