Social housing
Conference paper
Partnerships for affordable housing: lessons from Melbourne, Portland, Vancouver and Toronto
This paper examines how key actors in the affordable housing industry work together in affordable housing partnerships.
Conference paper
Housing design innovations delivered under the national Social Housing Initiative
This paper examines the built results of the SHI, with the analysis focused on housing design and procurement outcomes.
Report
Heritage and social housing: implications for repairs, maintenance, modifications and redevelopments
The purpose of this brief is to unpack ‘heritage’ and its implications for social housing asset management and, by extension, for social housing tenants.
Report
The opportunity of unlisted wholesale residential property funds in enhancing affordable housing supply
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...
Article
Is de-concentrating social housing a useful policy to promote wellbeing?
With the exception of inner city areas, higher ‘tenure diverse’ areas have relatively high concentrations of low-income renters (both social and private renters) compared to the average, meaning they tend to be poorer. Key Points