Research / Reports
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The built environments in which we live, work and play, have a critical role in shaping our health. The Healthy Built Environment Indicators presented here are based on this knowledge. The focus of the Indicators is on how the built environment supports physical activity (to reduce obesity, the risk of heart disease, some cancers and depression), social interaction (to reduce risk of mental illness, particularly depression), and the availability of healthy food (to reduce obesity and risk of heart disease and some cancers).
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This research explores what is required for sustainable Indigenous housing in regional and remote Australia to deliver positive health and wellbeing outcomes for householders, so that housing stock is maintained at high levels over time and is designed with climate change challenges in mind.
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With a growing community housing sector that is being increasingly seen by government as the growth provider for affordable housing in the future and with organisations wanting to set up CLTs but lacking the knowledge to do so, Louise’s team set out to find a solution. As a result they developed two main options: long-term leasehold and shared equity of the entire house and land.
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This report is part of the AHURI Inquiry into Population Growth, Migration and Agglomeration. The aim of the
Inquiry is to interrogate Australian and international evidence on the range of costs and benefits associated with agglomeration economies, when these effects may arise, how they might change with city scale, and how they might depend on spatial context
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The study finds that macro-scale population projections over the long term largely align with overall population changes.
The bulk of Australia’s population growth has been concentrated in major cities, where projections were exceeded on the outer edges and inner-city areas. Regional Australia has shared overall population growth, with only a few areas recording absolute population decline.
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If Community or Social Housing providers are to take responsibility for acquiring, maintaining, upgrading, renewing and redeveloping housing stock and establishing themselves as sound asset managers, then the social housing sector needs to be informed by best practice asset management.
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Ensuring liveability and accessibility in medium to high-density urban housing and precincts in our cities is critical to maximise investment and minimise future risks to our community. This research will investigate the current leading practices, considering future innovative options, and case studies. A key outcome will be a Liveability Framework for Medium to High-Density Social and Affordable Housing, based on a forward-looking set of quality standards, considered against investment costs.
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This report examines tenancy sustainment patterns in Unison’s Rooming House and Long-Term housing stock. It builds on previous work published by the Unison Housing Research Lab on early tenancy loss, by examining the full spectrum of different times at which tenancies either exit or continue. Understanding tenancy sustainment patterns is critical to Housing Associations like Unison, for whom a large proportion of tenants have experienced sustained social and economic exclusion and chronic housing instability. Improving tenancy sustainment rates is one of the key goals of many social housing providers and for good reason. Extant research shows there are clear social and economic benefits when households maintain their social housing tenancies.
