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No. 145: Resident third party objections and appeals against planning applications: implications for higher density and social housing

This Positioning Paper is the first output of a research project designed to explore the relationship between third-party objection and appeal rights, housing supply and participatory planning aims.

No. 144: The role of informal community resources in supporting independent housing for young people recovering from mental illness

This project has three key aims. The primary aim is to investigate the role of informal community resources in promoting stable housing outcomes and enhancing social inclusion for young people recovering from a mental illness. The second aim is to identify the neighbourhood factors that potentially moderate the risk of homelessness for youth in recovery. The third aim is to explore how housing policy interventions can strengthen the array of informal community resources available to support stable housing for youth in recovery.

No. 143: Australian suburban house building: industry organisation, practices and constraints

This paper presents initial research into the residential house building industry. The starting point for the research is the observations that there is an undersupply of new housing. This has led to research on various factors, such as urban land availability, planning and under utilised land that may be constraining supply. However, there has been little examination of the operations of the housing industry itself.

No. 142: Understanding the patterns, characteristics and trends in the housing sector labour force in Australia

New housing supply has become an important public policy issue in Australia. This research focuses on the supply of housing and in particular on the contribution that workers in the residential housing sector make to the supply of housing.

No. 141: Modelling crowding in Aboriginal Australia

This Positioning Paper seeks to explore and define the necessary concepts and theory relevant to upcoming empirical research into Australian Aboriginal household crowding by the authors.

No. 140: Homelessness prevention for women and children who have experienced domestic and family violence: innovations in policy and practice

This Positioning Paper makes up the first output of a research study entitled Homelessness prevention for women and children who have experienced domestic and family violence: Innovations in policy and practice. The purpose of this very specific project is to explore the value and implementation challenges of innovative staying at home homelessness prevention measures, such as Staying Home Leaving Violence schemes in Australia, and Sanctuary schemes in England and Wales.

No. 139: The residual income approach to housing affordability: the theory and the practice

This Positioning Paper seeks to provide a greater understanding of the residual income approach to measuring housing affordability. Part A provides an overview, using existing literature, of the various semantic, substantive and definitional issues around the notion of affordability, leading to an argument in support of the soundness of the residual income approach. Part B is methodological; it shows for various household types and income ranges, both for home purchase and rental, how the residual income method can be operationalised and its potential policy applications.

No. 138: Bridging the divide: the experiences of low-income households excluded from the private rental sector in Australia

This Positioning Paper sets out the research and conceptual parameters for a study examining re-entry into permanent housing following various conditions of forced exit from the private rental market.

No. 137: Pathways and choice in a diversifying social housing system

This study seeks to provide a better understanding of how access to social housing and mobility within the Australian social housing system are experienced by tenants, in a time of significant changes to the sector. The Positioning Paper outlines the conceptual and contextual background that informs the study which is currently underway.

No. 136: Assertive outreach

This Positioning Paper reports on the first stage of research into the adoption, in Australia, of new models of assertive outreach as responses to homelessness. The aim of the study is to explore the 'assertive outreach' approach, with a specific focus on the potential for this approach to reduce rough sleeping.