Policy
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This project examines the long-term impacts of transferring public housing to community housing providers (CHPs) in Australia.
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Do projects learn across space and time? This study looks at the cost overruns of hosting the Olympic Games between 1960 to 2024 to find out why what should be a ‘positive learning curve’ driving down costs from one iteration to the next, in fact produces no sustained improvement over 64 years.
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This study develops a generalizable mathematical programming framework for optimizing housing form and location at the spatial resolution of individual development sites, showing adaptability of the framework by finding sustainable “gentle density” housing development plans in Toronto (Canada), Houston (USA), and Perth (Australia).
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This article argues that legal duties of prevention, rights-based housing frameworks, scaled affordable housing, and fidelity-consistent Housing First produce the strongest, most durable results when paired with fair public-space management and non-criminalization approaches.
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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.
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While scholars have documented the punishment regime inflicted on unhoused people, less research has focused on the private citizens, often organized as mutual aid groups, who intervene to counteract—and help encampment residents survive—this regime.
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From the AHURI inquiry: Inquiry into developing a long-term governance and resource framework for sustainable and effective Indigenous housing. What…
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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.
