Report
Waste avoidance and reuse strategies for residential buildings in Australia
Introduction The Beyond Waste Fund is an initiative managed by Sustainability Victoria to help businesses avoid waste sent to landfill. The fund supports innovations that focus on waste avoidance, reduction and reuse, leading to improved resource management, and better environmental outcomes.
Article
Homelessness: re-shaping the policy agenda?
This essay evaluates the new statistical definition of homelessness adopted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) for the purposes of counting the homeless population. The ABS defines a person as homeless if they lack any one of three elements: adequacy of the dwelling; security of tenure in the dwelling; and control of, and access...
Report
Enhancing affordable rental housing investment via an intermediary and guarantee
As home ownership rates decline across all age cohorts, the suboptimal quantity, allocation, and security of housing opportunities in the rental market has received increasing policy attention. To date, fiscal strategies for attracting investment towards rental housing have had limited success, especially in attracting institutional investors to this sector.
Report
Cultural economies of hard rubbish
This study examined informal practices of hard rubbish reuse (or ‘gleaning’) by households.
Conference paper
Climate justice in the Australian city
This paper addresses critical gaps in existing research by taking a ‘practice approach’ to how we might better support climate justice at the metropolitan scale in Australia.