Little is known about the wellbeing and aspirations of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples living in social housing. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples living in social housing face common...
In January 2023, Rechelle Brookes, Jemima Cummins and Linda Wang, two recent graduates and one current student from the Master of Urban Planning at the University of Melbourne, Australia where I teach,...
The objective of the paper is to conceptualise how social housing impacts the life of tenants and how it affects their social mobility. Firstly, the paper looks at defining social housing to helps us get a...
Social housing is an asset-intensive business, and the value of these assets globally runs into trillions of dollars. Although knowledge about social housing asset management practices is limited the evidence...
Housing influences life chances and trajectories through many roles, differently and in relation to the socioeconomic characteristics of people and population groups. This article uses the concept –...
Preservationist planning broadly describes planning instruments that purport to preserve physical qualities of neighbourhoods by preventing demolition of historic dwellings. Here, we analyse land use...
The current housing and homelessness crisis impacting all Australian states and territories is highlighting the complex range of social, economic and environmental factors impacting families at risk...
Nordic and international research recognises the vulnerabilities and often poor outcomes for care leavers. However, their interrelationship with housing or homelessness as a specific outcome of concern is not...
The involvement of people with lived experience is broadly recognised as beneficial, and possibly essential, to effective service and policy planning. However, in the field of homelessness service...
The Australian population is ageing. 2021 Census shows that the Australian population is ageing, continuing a long-running trend. The scale of housing insecurity amongst older people in Australia is...