Infill housing in middle ring suburbs is a destination for low-income, disadvantaged households in the private rental market writes Ernest Healy and Bob Birrell.

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...

Final report profiling the pattern of movement of sole parents in Australia by Bob Birrell and Virginia Rapson.