Partnership working in the design and delivery of housing policy
Summary
This project will critically assess the formation of Public-Private Partnerships and their ongoing operation beyond potential cost/benefit comparisons against traditional frameworks. This research seeks to provide a focused contribution to these discussions, with an explicit aim to feed insight into policy as these initiatives move from establishment to expansion.
Project Number: 70588
Research Theme: Public_and_Community_Housing, Economics_Modelling
Project Leader: Pinnegar, Simon
Funding Year: 2009
Research Centre: UNSW-UWS
Description
The aims of the project are:
- To provide a concise review of key issues and themes related to partnership arrangements, focusing on opportunities and barriers faced in the development and delivery of policy objectives tied to those initiatives.
- To establish whether the housing and urban policy context raises specific needs, opportunities and challenges for partnership approaches, to identify what those opportunities and challenges are, and to consider how they may be addressed.
- To help inform new policy initiatives where partnership working will be integral to viability and success.
The proposed methodology combines detailed desk-based review with qualitative research to build a series of policy/program guidelines. This involves:
- A review of literature and policy initiatives promoting PPPs as mechanisms for the delivery and management of housing and urban renewal schemes across Australian and internationally.
- Interviews with partnership advisors, specialists, policy officials working on NRAS, HAF and jurisdiction-specific initiatives, the community housing sector, and private sector ‘partners’ to explore issues of partnership establishment, coordination and operation.
- Framing of core issues to be addressed in partnering arrangements and input into the evolving design and delivery of recent initiatives. A workshop will discuss the research with stakeholders currently engaged in PPP arrangements in affordable housing provision and urban renewal.
