Community Housing Provision

This lecture given by Mark Stephens on 20 February 2026, is about social housing, and the role that it might play in tackling Australia’s housing crisis.
This research report presents key findings from a mixed-methods study investigating the physical and mental health effects of housing previously homeless individuals in regional New South Wales.
This is a rapid review of literature on transitional supportive housing for veterans, and a co-design of the RSL LifeCare Homes for Heroes program.
This study analyzes the HOPE VI program, a $17 billion initiative to revitalize 262 distressed public housing developments, to determine if low-economic-mobility neighborhoods can be transformed into high-mobility areas.
This research explores workplace trauma in Australia’s social housing and homelessness services, including its extent, causes and impacts, and examines current practices to address this trauma, options to mitigate it, and guiding principles for response.
This study examines the extent to which housing allowances and social housing protect against housing precarity experienced by low-income renters using Australian and UK data.
Public housing estate renewal programmes increasingly require that tenants move from their homes to enable redevelopment; a process we refer to as renewal-initiated tenant relocation. This paper examines the role of relocation officers—staff responsible for managing renewal-initiated tenant relocation—in New South Wales and Victoria, Australia.
This research explores concentrations and density of social housing relative to local amenities and services across Australia. Key findings found that social housing is not spread evenly across cities and towns.