This report documents the findings of a review into the implementation of the New Zealand governments' social housing reforms.

This study confirmed that existing official performance measures of Australia’s social housing services are inadequate to measure efficiency and effectiveness. Working closely with six larger community housing providers and two public housing providers, the research team developed and trialled a new performance framework. This involved collecting data for social housing expenditure, conducting workshops with managers...

This paper draws on eight interviews conducted with housing and investment stakeholders in Melbourne currently involved in affordable housing, or with potential for such involvement.

For areas where social housing is clustered, the effect is a concentration of poverty, disadvantage and social problems, along with a stigmatised identity for both the place and its residents. This paper illustrates these contestations by identifying the competing discourses surrounding a planned social housing renewal program in Logan in Queensland.

Consulting the views of the not-for-profit (NFP) sector and government officers who took part in the planning process of Logan Renewal Initiative (LRI) on the project's viability, this paper points to a substantial disconnect and distrust between top-down expectations and what they deem as pragmatic for LRI.