Mike Berry, Christine Whitehead, Peter Williams and Judith Yates critically compare the debates, research findings and policy developments directed towards attracting private investment into affordable housing provision in Australia and the UK.

In this positioning paper Paul Memmott, Stephen Long, Martin Bell, John Taylor and Dominic Brown outline a research project which aims to carry out a combination of statistical and field-based research on the residential mobility of Indigenous people in selected discrete and rural communities in order to quantify and contextualize their mobility patterns.

It identifies the impediments Indigenous people face in accessing mainstream public and long-term community housing assistance programs and sustaining tenancies in public and community housing. And it discusses policy actions and measures that may help to overcome these obstacles. Authors: Paul Flatau, Lesley Cooper, Mary Morris, Andrew Beer, Natalie McGrath, Marc Adam and Dora Marinova

There is growing polarisation in Australian housing markets between those who have attained or will attain home ownership, and those who will spend their housing careers in private rental housing. While this has an obvious equity dimension, it also affects the efficiency of urban and regional housing economies. In the 11th Annual F. Oswald Barnett...

Andrew Beer and Paul Foley analyse 434 interviews with refugees in Adelaide, Perth and Brisbane during 2002-2003. The survey was structured to report on the housing experiences and needs both of Temporary Protection Visa arrivals into Australia and refugee immigrants who came to Australia as the holders of a Permanent Protection Visa. The research adds...