Results indicate that various aspects of housing do have a direct relationship with social connectedness within communities, over and above the mediating impact of inequalities. Within Australian public policy it has become something of an orthodoxy to assume that housing and planning policy initiatives are positively linked to outcomes such as family functioning, educational attainment...

This paper is based on a review and reflection of relevant literature. This positioning paper is the first report of a project funded by AHURI which fills a part of the gap in knowledge about the linkages between housing, housing assistance and social cohesion. It explores the relevance of the social cohesion concept for housing...

Little is known about social capital in practice, since measurement of the concept remains an emerging field. Drawing on data from the institute's Families, Social Capital and Citizenship survey of 1500 Australian households, Wendy Stone and Jody Hughes aim to contribute to the development of theoretically based and empirically valid measures of social capital that...