This research project investigated the marginal rental housing market, which includes boarding or rooming houses and residential (caravan) park accommodation and provided a typology of marginal rental housing.

This research project investigates the marginal rental housing market, which includes rooming houses and various kinds of caravan park accommodation. The project asks: What are the supply and demand trends in different geographical locations? What are the drivers of change in this market? And what are the housing policy implications? The research addresses these questions...

Almost a decade ago in October 2002, the state government of Victoria introduced Melbourne 2030 – Planning for Sustainable Growth, a new metropolitan planning strategy for Melbourne. This papers purpose is to evaluate the policies contained in Melbourne 2030 and to examine what they achieved, and the reasons for successes and failures.

This research established the link between land use planning policies and mechanisms and the form of housing supplied. It examined details of both planning policy and housing supply in the state of Victoria over a time period covering two significant policy regime shifts. The research was confined to metropolitan Melbourne, but the results would be...

This positioning paper is the first product of a research project which is investigating the links between planning policies and housing outcomes. The project is an investigation into whether changes to land use planning policies and mechanisms impact on the types of housing supplied, particularly in new release areas. It examines details of both planning...