Affordable Housing, Disasters, and Social Equity

Flexible Affordable Housing Policy Design with Scale Impacts and Equity Objectives

Affordable and subsidized housing providers must design and implement housing strategies: where, when and with what types of housing to best meet the needs of lowand moderate-income households for affordable/low-cost permanent shelter. Recent research has proposed a multiobjective integer programming model for this purpose that jointly optimizes measures of net social benefit and equity and add...

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...

Housing Equity Withdrawal

The increase in housing prices in recent years has contributed to rising household wealth and has helped to underpin continued strength in consumption spending. One important aspect of this process is that rising housing prices, combined with other factors such as lower interest rates and financial innovation, have increased the capacity of households to borrow. A feature of the past few years ...

Lessons of Defence Housing Australia for affordable housing provision

Design criteria for adequate and affordable housing towards current social, demographic and economic trends

For more than three decades, the evolving social, demographic and economic situation in developed nations has presented important challenges for housing designers, planners and investors, including those involved in the field of public intervention in social housing. Despite their undeniable merits on a theoretical level, efforts to respond to these challenges through new approaches in housing ...