Affordable Housing: An Economic Perspective

Economic and Statistical Models for Affordable Housing Policy Design

Prescriptive planning models for affordable and subsidized housing policy design that have a local focus and which are intended to reflect aspects of current and/or best practices require detailed estimates of various structural parameters. These estimates should ideally reflect observations of actual housing units, households and development projects. We examine here three classes of structura...

Lifetime Affordable Housing in Australia

research by Dr John Morrissey, Prof Ralph Horne, Prof Mike Berry and Mr Trivess Moore conducted at the Centre for Design, RMIT University between February 2008 and October 2010. The research examined the relationship between housing cost and provision and long term sustainability limits, considering socio-economic, spatial and inter-generational dimensions. This briefing reports on the influenc...

The Manufactured Home as an Affordable Housing Option

Mobile homes are often perceived as a cheap housing alternative of last resort. This paper reviews the history of the mobile home from its trailer house beginnings to its present manufactured home status. Manufactured homes (HUD Code mobile homes) located in manufactured home land lease parks are an affordable and preferred housing choice of many housing consumers. Furthermore, manufactured hou...

Lessons of Defence Housing Australia for affordable housing provision

UNDERSTANDING DEMOGRAPHIC, SPATIAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACTS ON FUTURE AFFORDABLE HOUSING DEMAND Paper Five – BME Housing needs and aspirations

Paper Five – BME Housing needs and aspirations Sanna Markkanen With Anna Clarke, Alex Fenton, Alan Holmans, Sarah Monk and Christine Whitehead Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research January 2008 This is the fifth of a suite of eight papers drawing on research carried out into demographic, spatial and economic impacts on future affordable housing demand. For full details on the metho...