Driving maximum benefit: lessons from a quarter century of public housing transfers  

Driving maximum benefit: lessons from a quarter century of public housing transfers  

This webinar unpacked new AHURI research: ‘Public housing transfers: longer-term impacts on investment, tenant experience and sector outcomes’.  

Public housing transfers have been a key strategy to grow Australia’s community housing sector for decades. By 2024, community housing providers (CHPs) managed 129,940 homes – 29% of all social housing.  

While these transfer programs allowed CHPs to professionalise and improved tenant satisfaction and dwelling quality, they have not enabled CHPs to significantly expand social housing stock.  

This has left a key aim of many transfer programs unachieved – so what would enable CHPs to add more social housing dwellings?  

In this webinar we explored research findings from the AHURI Final Report ‘Public housing transfers: longer-term impacts on investment, tenant experience and sector outcomes’ with lead author Dr Edgar Liu, Senior Research Fellow at UNSW Sydney, and Mark Degotardi, CEO of Australian Community Housing, facilitated by Dr Tom Alves, AHURI Head of Development.

The discussion explored how different state and territory approaches to public housing transfers have led to divergent outcomes, what lessons can be learned, and explore how transfer terms could better enable CHPs to deliver new social housing.

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