Barriers to affordable housing on brownfield sites

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...

Lessons of Defence Housing Australia for affordable housing provision

The Impact of Affordable Housing on Communities and Households

Barriers to Universal Design in Australian Housing

The way a home is designed can make the difference between living independently at home in familiar surroundings, or needing to move to specialized accommodation or institutional living. In one respect universal design in housing already exists – they are the universals currently adopted by the industry. However, small, cost neutral, but important changes to these universals can make Australian...

Constant Quality Rent Indexes for Affordable Housing

This paper develops and applies a method for producing constant quality rent indexes and inflation estimates for different segments of the rental housing stock. In each of the five contrasting metropolitan areas, rent inflation since the late 1980s is found to have varied by market segment. In some metro areas, rental prices have risen most rapidly in the bottom third of the rent distribution, ...