Whether in Melbourne or in Paris, African immigrants face social and cultural challenges, which public housing can either add to or help overcome.
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Needs-based funding is necessary, but it can only do so much. It's much more effective if we don't have schools with high concentrations of poverty and disadvantage.
Low-density suburbs can cause social isolation that's harmful for individual and community well-being. But research confirms we can plan neighbourhood centres so they become vibrant social hubs.
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.
Even where communities are mixed, many inner-city families go to extraordinary financial and geographic lengths to ensure their children do not go to school with children from 'the flats'.
Mixing public and private housing in urban renewal projects can be a contentious business. But public good and optimal use of public resources, not developer interests, should guide such decisions.
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Professor of Population Health, University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, Murdoch University
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Research Professor, University of Technology Sydney
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Future Fellow, University of Melbourne
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Research Fellow, Australian Centre for Architectural History, Urban and Cultural Heritage (ACAHUCH), University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, Honorary Principal Fellow, University of Melbourne
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Research Fellow in Urban Studies, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer and Architect, Deakin University
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Associate Professor, Associate Head of School (Research), co-leader of the research network HOME, Deakin University
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Honorary Research Fellow, University of Melbourne
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Melbourne Early Career Academic Fellow, Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne
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Teaching Assistant, University of Melbourne
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McKenzie Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne
