Social housing is important in the fight against homelessness. But we don't actually know that it helps vulnerable people in any other areas of life.
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Improving social housing can help reduce emergency hospital admissions – and more.
The standards we use today were designed to help avoid the overcrowded housing that blighted cities in the past. But severe overcrowding is again on the rise, so what needs to be done?
Grenfell was a 'catastrophic regulatory failure', and reform is still needed – but above all, tenants must be empowered to make their homes safe.
A first glimpse of the low-income housing scheme, designed in collaboration with West, raises red flags.
To deliver better housing for health, we must go back to what we know works, to the proven evidence-based solutions for design, construction, delivery and maintenance.
Tasmania has an estimated rental housing shortfall of 29,200 households across the state. Especially in disadvantaged rural areas, local councils have had to step in to help house residents locally.
A decade after the launch of a national campaign against homelessness, the trends are all going the wrong way. A new annual report highlights what's gone wrong and what must be done.
The problem with most public housing 'renewal' programs is that the residents have the least say in what happens to the places they call home. The evidence of housing research is also being ignored.
If local government is to deliver affordable housing, state and federal governments must assist. Even councils as powerful and well resourced as the City of Sydney cannot do it by themselves.
The clichés about housing supply and regulatory restraints are distractions from the need to focus on expanding the affordable housing sector to directly meet the needs of low-income households.
Based on research comparing projects across the country, a new assessment tool calculates cost-effective ways to fund affordable housing to meet specified needs in different markets.
The Victorian government isn't alone in seeking private partners to renew public housing. What is notable is its lack of transparency by comparison with such arrangements elsewhere.
The Australian government has at last taken the lead in affordable housing policy with a package of measures that should attract institutional investors hungry for low-risk returns.
Canada's National Housing Strategy leaves a large segment of the population that must find a way to afford housing in the private market. More initiatives are needed to help first-time home buyers.
Government learned much from the war. But today we find new throwbacks to that Blitz-era sclerosis.
Yet again the evidence shows supply is no cure-all for affordable housing. All levels of government in Australia need to concentrate on housing for low-income renters in particular.
Self-expression from the streets.
All but a handful of the former public housing tenants are gone. But despite the government again rejecting the recommended heritage listing of the Sirius building, the fight to save it isn't over.
The states that are delivering more affordable housing have sophisticated, multi-pronged strategies to serve the full range of needs.
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Associate Director - City Futures - Urban Policy and Strategy, City Futures Research Centre, Housing Policy and Practice, UNSW
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Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Sydney
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Director, Henry Halloran Trust, University of Sydney
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Program Director, Master of Urbanism. School of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney
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Alan Morris is a Friend of The Conversation.
Research Professor, University of Technology Sydney
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Director, Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute, Curtin Research Centre, Curtin University
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Honorary Associate Professor, RMIT University
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Director, City Futures Research Centre, Faculty of the Built Environment, UNSW
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Visiting Senior Fellow - City Futures Research Centre, Housing Policy and Practice, UNSW
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Research Fellow, City Housing, UNSW
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Future Fellow, University of Melbourne
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Professor of Housing Economics and Director, UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence, University of Glasgow
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Senior Lecturer in Social Policy and Criminology, The Open University
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Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
