Policy
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This research investigates a range of short-term rental accommodation (STRA) models across Australia and their impacts on housing markets and communities.
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Affordability is not a problem solved once and for all, but a situation that requires constant monitoring as well as management. Professor Phang Sock Yong’s body of work has shaped conversations around housing affordability both in Singapore and abroad—helping policymakers manage land, supply, finance and market rules as one integrated system.
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This research project examines the effectiveness of Australia’s supported accommodation services in meeting the needs of unaccompanied children and young people aged 12–24. It proposes principles to guide policy and practice toward a better system.
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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.
