Affordable Housing

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.
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.
This small-scale study explores how reduced availability and rising prices at the lower-cost end of the private rented sector are affecting people experiencing homelessness and the organisations that support them.
This performance report assesses the progress of the Better Deal for Renters by each Australian state and territory, one year since it was delivered.
This report seeks to evaluate and educate the broader off-site financing and development community, who struggle to overcome financing barriers that come from a legacy approach set up for on-site construction processes.
Analysis demonstrates that when integrated with housing and transportation costs, it is possible to identify workforce distribution as a contributor to teacher shortages, and generate the data and evidence required by policy makers to set explicit policy goals and markers of success.