Housing supply and diversity
The Queensland Government established the State Planning Policy (SPP) to define the matters of state interest in land-use planning and development. State interests in the SPP consist of a state interest...
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State and regional planning
State planning instruments set out the state and regional planning interests critical to responsible land-use planning and development across Queensland. The state government sets out the state and regional...
Land Supply and Development Monitoring Report
The Queensland Government has established the Housing Supply Expert Panel (HSEP). The panel will play a critical role in delivery of the Growth Monitoring Program by providing independent expert advice to the...
Development contributions for affordable housing: theory and implementation
In Australia, the task of supplying social and affordable housing has generally been borne by broad-based tax systems operated by the Commonwealth and State Governments, rather than the planning or development...
The economic merits of Inclusionary Zoning for affordable housing
SGS Economics & Planning has released an Occasional Paper analysing the economic merits of Inclusionary Zoning (IZ) for affordable housing. IZ requires the incorporation of a certain proportion of...
Is social and affordable housing economic infrastructure?
Should social and affordable housing be treated as economic infrastructure? This is more than a rhetorical question. Construing social and affordable housing (that is, secure rental housing available at...
The Case for Investing in Last Resort Housing
A cost benefit analysis prepared in collaboration with Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute at the University of Melbourne has found that it is cheaper to provide last resort housing to homeless people than...
Census of Population and Housing: Estimating homelessness, 2016
This publication presents estimates of the prevalence of homelessness, and the characteristics and living arrangements of those likely to be homeless, on Census night 2016 and compares those estimates to...
The Older Persons Homelessness Prevention Project
In late December 2015, Housing for the Aged Action Group (HAAG) , in partnership with CHURP, was successful in our funding submission to The Wicking Trust to run an Australia-wide project called The Older...
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people: a focus report on housing and homelessness
This report examines the profiles of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in both the housing and homelessness sectors over time, using multiple data sources and visualisation tools. Historically,...