Housing
Alternative labels
Residential building
Dwellings
Housing strategy
Guide
Guide to low carbon residential buildings – new build
This document offers practical advice to developers and owner builders on how to achieve these objectives through the conception and realisation of a new home.
Report
Informal accommodation and vulnerable households: scale, drivers and policy responses in metropolitan Sydney
This report finds low-income and other vulnerable groups are being forced into informal housing arrangements, such as share accommodation. A chronic shortage of social and affordable housing means some people are forced to live in severely overcrowded situations that contravene planning and building regulations.
Policy report
Speculative vacancies 9
This report is timely in its analysis of vacancy at the peak of the Melbourne property cycle. During the period of this study, vacancy taxes had not been enacted at a state level.
Article
Paris? Melbourne? Public housing doesn’t just look the same, it’s part of the challenges refugees face
How public housing design can be reimagined to reflect the lives and experiences of its residents.
Dataset
Commonwealth Orange Book 2019 - chart data
This chart data accompanies the book report which rates Australia’s performance against similar countries and proposes policy reforms to schools and universities, hospitals and housing, roads and railways, cities and regions, budgets and taxes, retirement incomes and climate change.