Good practices for managing Australia's public housing assets
Summary
The aim of this project is to develop a set of good practices for strategic asset management which will assist State Housing Authorities (SHAs) as they seek to improve housing outcomes for public tenants and extend the life of their housing stock by maintaining its viability and relevance. Supplementary aims are to scope the attributes of public housing stock and its associated issues, and to document and compare the asset management decision-making framework in each jurisdiction.
Project Number: 50366
Research Theme: Public_and_Community_housing
Project Leader: Kenley, Russell
Funding Year: 2007
Research Centre: Swinburne-Monash
Description
Decisions about construction, refurbishment, redevelopment, urban and community renewal, and asset disposal are increasingly complex and the subject of major debates about the future of public housing. SHAs have developed strategic asset management frameworks within which to make these decisions. These frameworks have had to utilise and adapt commercial sector practices for non-residential building to a social housing context.
The project has potential implications in four areas:
- An overview of Australia's public housing assets and the associated issues which SHAs face.
- Documentation of the range of asset management strategies and the basis on which SHAs make decisions.
- Case studies which evaluate whether the objectives of an asset management strategy are being achieved.
- The development of set of good practices for public housing asset management, based on both Australian and international experience.
More Information
Positioning Paper: No. 118: Towards best practice for public housing asset management
602 KB PDF Document
Final Report: No. 148: Good practices for managing Australia's public and community housing assets
2.8 MB PDF Document
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