Sean McNelis and Tania Herbert investigate the current status of Independent Living Units, which operate outside current housing and aged care regulatory frameworks, to ascertain how well they are meeting the needs of older people and the issues surrounding the ageing of this form.

Both Commonwealth and state governments are committed to growing the community housing sector as an independent, complementary social housing system. This will require new investment, new partnerships and an increased capacity to manage more flexibly. A major obstacle to these objectives is the lack of quality assurance, effective risk management and prudential control in this...

Three previous AHURI reports have clearly established that housing affordability problems have intensified significantly in Australia over the past 15 years; the bottom end of the rental housing market is failing abjectly in meeting rising demand; existing housing subsidies are inadequate to deal with the worsening situation; and that the only feasible alternative is to...

In New Approaches to Expanding the Supply of Affordable Housing in Australia: An Increasing Role for the Private Sector Mike Berry argues that reduced governments have been reducing their spending on social housing at a time when increasing economic inequality and insecurity and high house price inflation (especially in the large cities) is creating increased...

Written at a time of major change for the sector, following the announcement in August 1992 of a new Community Housing Program, this paper reviews the current state of community housing in Australia.