This report reviews the new planning powers in New South Wales under the State Environmental Planning Policy and examines how planning and housing policy domains can work together to increase affordable housing supply and their effectiveness. Key findings:

This report examines how the benefits of Feed-in Tariffs and new and innovative funding mechanisms for energy efficiency can be accessed by social housing. Although some social landlords have been able to access FITs to install solar panels, the policy was not designed with the social housing sector in mind or intended to address social...

The outcome of the project is a list of recommendations designed to increase the supply of appropriate, diverse and affordable housing through infill development.

This report presents state and territory findings from the 2010 National Social Housing Survey of public housing and mainstream community housing tenants. It shows that: · the majority of tenants are satisfied with the services of their housing provider· about 1 in 5 public housing tenants and 1 in 3 community housing tenants indicated they...

The Victorian Government’s discussion paper on social housing provides an opportunity for difficult conversations that are necessary if we are to gain the Victorian community’s support for the long-term solutions that are required. The Brotherhood of St Laurence welcomes the Government’s public consultation on two discussion papers, Pathways to a fair and sustainable social housing...