Policy

This research explores how property technology is used in Australia’s private and social rental sectors and examines the implications of this for individuals and housing access, and whether existing policy and legal frameworks are fit-for-purpose.
This article examines the relationship between the Housing First model and contextual factors influencing its implementation. It identifies five key contextual factors shaping implementation and explores strategies developed to adapt the model in response.
The global housing affordability ‘crisis’ highlights a policy failure shared across many jurisdictions and countries: a disconnect between the affordability challenge and capacity to act. The article draws on a series of stakeholder interviews involved in the design and delivery of public housing estate renewal in Australia.
This study aims to investigate build to rent as a potential solution that can be integrated into Australia’s housing policy framework to deliver affordable, professionally managed rental supply.
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 study shows how cohortisation engenders a new problematisation of homelessness, replacing the neoliberal tendency to blame the individual with a focus on the failure of service systems to recognise and respond to cohort differences.
This study examines the spatial evolution of informal settlements, including temporary housing camps, in Brisbane, Australia. Findings reveal how these settlements were gradually absorbed into or reshaped by the surrounding urban fabric.
This research compares the advantages, disadvantages and unintended consequences of different models, and creates an evidence-base to support the design of future government-led shared equity programs.