Built environment
Report
Community Engagement Review: report to the Minister for Climate Change and Energy
This review was commissioned to advise on improving community engagement on renewable energy infrastructure developments.
Report
Understanding waste generation in the New Zealand construction sector: scoping study
This scoping study takes a systems approach to understand the waste streams in supply chain and on-site construction. It looks at the behaviours leading to such high levels of waste from the sector and the groups and initiatives active in reducing and removing waste streams.
Report
Spatial segregation and neighbourhood change
This research studies the extent and patterns of spatial segregation by income bands and levels of neighbourhood deprivation across Australia’s five largest capital cities - Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth.
Working paper
An impossible triangle? The impact of housing policy on affordability, accessibility, and efficiency
Policy-makers worldwide are grappling with how to make housing more affordable. Governments deploy a range of housing policy instruments to pursue the aims of housing affordability, ownership accessibility, and economic efficiency. The authors study four such instruments in this paper.
Book
Our housing Australia
Beyond sales prices, construction materials and population averages, we know surprisingly little about the homes Australians live in. This collection of essays provides a valuable and broad view of housing in contemporary Australia.