This work examined the links between increased dwelling densities introduced through urban consolidation policy and the spatial concentration of socio-economic disadvantage in Melbourne.

In 2002, the Victorian government released its Melbourne 2030 urban planning blueprint, which advocated significantly increased residential densities across Melbourne. One of the aspirations of this plan is to provide housing opportunities for less well off households. However, there is already evidence of growing concentrations of social disadvantage within Melbourne. Ernest Healy and Bob Birrell...

The influence of housing costs on the economic well-being of Australian households at a regional level and the regional impact of housing assistance on financial disadvantage is as yet relatively unexplored.

Gavin Wood and Rachel Ong report on the first stage of a project examining how housing assistance programs impact on economic participation outcomes once we control for the mediating effects that intermediary variables such as health and neighbourhood effects can have on economic participation outcomes.

Keith Jacobs, Kathy Arthurson and Bill Randolph present the findings of a project to review current practices and develop appropriate exit strategy models. Evidence strongly suggests that the longer the timescales allowed for the development and embedding of appropriate exit structures and strategies during the lifetime of the renewal project, the greater the likelihood of...