With the Victorian social housing system is under severe stress, this report calls for a broad strategy that addresses social housing shortages, and looks at ways to expand the supply and quality of low cost private housing.

It’s not uncommon to hear that the cost of living in Australia – and Sydney in particular – is among the highest in the world. And in exploiting our fear of hip-pocket pain, politicians and the media have fuelled our sense that keeping up with day-to-day expenses is getting harder and harder.

Housing stress is only weakly linked with indicators of wellbeing such as health and financial stress. Alternative, narrower measures of housing affordability are needed to better quantify household affordability problems and thus better inform policy formulation in Australia. Key points:

The NSW Government response to recommendations of an independent Social Impact Assessment into the sale of social housing properties in Millers Point, Sydney.

A new guide for local governments will support the development of communities that are liveable, prosperous and sustainable. The Green Star – Communities Guide for Local Government has been launched today by the Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA) and AECOM at the Green Cities 2014 conference in Melbourne. The guide explains how councils can...