Overview The project involved analysing the potential options for developing a model of an effective property investment vehicle for affordable housing. This involved consideration of strategic positioning, whether the fund is listed or unlisted, whether the fund portfolio involves a mix of assets, and analysing risk and return. The performance of the proposed vehicle was...

Focusses on the interconnected nature of various segments of the housing market and how the affordable rental housing “crisis” has stemmed from and been exacerbated by multi-faceted structural deficiencies in the private rental, home ownership and public segments of the housing market.

The research sought to measure whether lower income households are able to access housing which is ‘affordable’ based on weekly rent of no more than 30 per cent of gross household income and ‘available’ referring to the extent to which affordable dwellings are in fact occupied by lower income households. The research method involved original...

Since the Residential Tenancies Act 1997 was introduced, the rental sector has changed. A growing number of Victorians are renting, for different reasons and for different lengths of time. Although the sector has always catered for a broad range of tenants, in the past a greater proportion of tenants were newly formed households, younger people...

The research sought to measure whether lower income households are able to access housing which is ‘affordable’ based on weekly rent of no more than 30 per cent of gross household income and ‘available’ referring to the extent to which affordable dwellings are in fact occupied by lower income households. The research method involved original...