Lifetime Affordable Housing in Australia

Expanding the supply of affordable housing in Australia

Housing affordability in Australia is declining, especially for low-income tenants in the private sector. A number of attempts have been made to attract more private investment into boosting the supply of affordable housing in Australia. However, these attempts have been one-off and small-scale, enjoying very limited success. Large professional and institutional investors continue to avoid the ...

Lessons of Defence Housing Australia for affordable housing provision

Paper Title: Housing Barriers for African migrants in Australia

Finding suitable and affordable housing is one of the major concerns facing African migrants in Australia. This paper reports on work in progress at the University of South Australia on housing affordability and community integration for African refugees and migrants. This research seeks to address the relationship between housing and integration and the implications for African community settl...

Recent housing transfer experience in Australia: implications for affordable housing industry development – Executive summary

Partnerships for Affordable Housing: Lessons from Melbourne, Portland, Vancouver and Toronto

Recent deliberative planning theory has developed the idea that partnerships between governments, the private sector, and community advocates are the best way to create innovative solutions to ‘wicked’ policy problems, such as affordable housing. The worst case scenario, however, is that these partnerships are merely a new version of urban growth machines: collusion between governments and priv...