This research project was funded by the Australian Government under the 2009-13 National Homelessness Research Agenda. The Homelessness White Paper, The Road Home, identified workforce development as a key national priority in policy responses to homelessness. Despite the strong policy interest in the specialist homelessness workforce, little robust data on workforce characteristics and dynamics was...

This positioning paper is the first output of a research project, which aims to examine two models of public engagement in planning approval processes—Third Party Objection and Appeal Rights (TPOAR) and Fast tracked planning—to see how they impact on housing supply, resident perceptions, and realisation of planning goals. Authors: Nicole Cook, Elizabeth Taylor, Joe Hurley...

Arising from its origins in the experiences and writings of public housing residents in the Neighbourhood That Works project (NTW 2008), this paper uses a governmentality theoretical framework to review the tenant participation and housing literature and its use of the idea of empowerment.

The purpose of this paper is to neither provide a comprehensive review of academic writings on social mix nor to provide a detailed discussion of such policies in Australia, as this is done elsewhere. Rather, while providing an overview of the perceived benefits of such polices at a broad level, here social mix is repositioned...

This paper explains some of the activities and processes related to the Community and Environment Project (CEP), a partnership between Housing NSW’s Building Stronger Communities Program at Mt Druitt, the Designing Out Crime (DOC) Research Centre at UTS, and the School of Social Work at UWS. The main aim of the partnership is to develop...