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No. 188: Housing Supply Bonds-a suitable instrument to channel investment towards affordable housing in Australia?

This research project draws on international evidence, experts and financial modeling to explore the possibilities of utilizing bond finance as a means of expanding affordable housing in Australia. In particular, it adapts the Austrian model of Housing Construction Convertible Bonds to the Australian context.

No. 187: Sustaining home ownership in the 21st century: emerging policy concerns

This Essay critically examined whether high rates of home ownership can be sustained into the next century and the policy settings that are optimal to enable people to access and retain ownership of their homes.

No. 186: Pathways into and within social housing

The study’s principle aim was to chart a range of pathways into and within the current Australian social housing system at a time of significant changes to the sector, including the expansion of community housing, the introduction of common access systems in a number of states, and increased targeting of social housing towards those in greatest need.

No. 185: Community Land Trusts and Indigenous housing options

This report presents the findings of AHURI-funded research into the potential relevance of models based on Community Land Trusts (CLTs), one form of hybrid tenure, for the Indigenous housing sector. The aims of the project have been to tease out relevant aspects of CLTs as developed overseas and to investigate their resonance with and applicability to Indigenous housing policy objectives, with a practical focus on their potential operation in New South Wales (NSW) and Queensland.

No. 184: Policy shift or program drift? Implementing Housing First in Australia

This Essay critically analysed how the Housing First approach can be successfully applied to the system of supported housing in Australia.

No. 183: Developing sustainable affordable housing: a project level analysis

This study examines how contemporary Australian affordable housing projects are designed, financed, developed and managed. The study aims to deepen understanding and raise awareness of the various trade-offs that shape the design and development of affordable housing projects in Australia, and to suggest ways in which such trade-offs can be managed to deliver outcomes that are socially, environmentally and financially sustainable. The study also offers a tool for project-level evaluation of affordable housing.

No. 182: The spatial and distributional impacts of the Henry Review recommendations on stamp duty and land tax

This report is the second Final Report of a project that examines the impact on supply and affordability from implementation of the Henry Review recommendations in relation to negative gearing, land tax and stamp duty. This report aims to assess the extent to which the Henry Review recommendations on stamp duty and land tax would affect the costs of purchasing and holding properties across geographical locations, and offers estimates of their capitalisation into land values.

No. 181: Multi-generation households in Australian cities

This Essay provided an analysis of the demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of people living in multi-generation households in Australia and how these have changed since the 1980s, using the cities of Sydney and Brisbane as two contrasting case studies.

No. 180: Exploring the use of residual measures of housing affordability in Australia: methodologies and concepts

The concept of housing affordability has a central role in Australian housing research. The dominant approach to defining and measuring housing affordability has been the ratio approach. This Essay explores the potential advantages of greater use of residual measures of housing affordability as a supplement to the ratio approach for Australian housing policy and research.

No. 179: The role of assertive outreach in ending 'rough sleeping'

This study examines 'assertive outreach' as a recent and developing, policy-driven approach to ending homelessness for people sleeping rough in Australia. It is concerned with how assertive outreach has been conceptualised and implemented into practice in Australia and the extent to which it is achieving its policy intent. The study is essentially a formative review and aims to elicit the perspectives and experiences of policy-makers, service providers and service users within diverse contextual environments, drawing on three Australian case studies.