Policy

Lack of awareness of and about homeless youth with intellectual disabilities, combined with siloed ways of working by involved sectors, results in significant disadvantage and health inequities for youth.
In this commentary, the authors examine a recent application of wastewater surveillance of COVID-19 in a men’s shelter in Toronto.
The study elucidates the complex interplay between social factors such as income inequality, education disparities, housing conditions, and access to healthcare, and policy-making processes. The study concludes that addressing social determinants is crucial for designing effective and equitable public health policies.
this study developed a communal outdoor space typology for apartment buildings in Australian cities, measured the degree to which each communal outdoor space type provides access to greenery, and examined which communal outdoor space types received the most frequent visitation via a resident survey.
Stated preference surveys and qualitative engagement were used to examine the potential for change in Australian urban growth dynamics. We found that residents with strong preferences for large and mid-sized cities appear unlikely to change their preferences.
The main research aims were to facilitate social housing upgrading processes focusing on the delivery of value for users, achieving end-user empowerment, as well as assessing participatory decision-making through Living Labs.
Explores the impacts of gender in understanding housing and homelessness issues and shows that people’s housing opportunities, pathways, assistance and outcomes are affected by their gender.
This paper is part of a NSW Productivity Commission series on how to make housing more affordable and make the best use of Sydney’s infrastructure.