Research and Policy

This research reviewed government policies and practices and investigated Australian case studies to better understand the quality, energy, and locational and transportation dimensions of housing affordability.

This research note explores the degree of de/centralization in affordable housing policy in Australia, Austria, Canada, and Germany, focusing on the two main policy instruments: social housing and the housing allowance.

This report presents findings from interviews with organisations engaged in the production of accessible, small dwellings (between 45m2 and 75m2) in the mainstream housing stock.

This study aims to identify primary contributors to homelessness and explore risk factors linked to chronic homelessness in Northern Ireland, using data spanning 2012-2022.

We conceptualize research as activism and propose that policy can be engaged as a matter of social justice and a means to transform society via research and knowledge mobilization.

This article examines the housing situations of people released from prison in Aotearoa New Zealand, and the relationship between two measures of recidivism (re-sentencing and re-imprisonment) and two measures of housing stability (stable housing and residential mobility).

Whose income actually benefits from productivity gains when highly productive urban locations in Australia, and other advanced economies, also are associated with worsening housing affordability and inequality?

The article illuminates how local government uses strategic planning in a context characterized as neo-liberalist-oriented housing market, to frame the broad varieties of planning and policy-instruments they possess to reach the goal of more inclusive housing markets.

Keynote presentation slides. This research explores the understanding and the ability of the professionals in the UK construction industry to influence the adoption of Modern Methods of Construction (MMC). This study is carried out through a combination of a literature review and a questionnaire survey of the top professionals in the UK construction industry.

Through a systematic review of peer-reviewed journals from 2015 through 2021, this study identified 27 articles that focus on the intersection of social work, environmental justice, poverty, and racism.