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news 8th June 2023

Consumer demand for sustainable apartments not being met

… including owner occupiers, ‘Build-to-rent’ investors and social housing providers, new AHURI research has … The research clearly reveals that the apartment buildings built for the prevalent speculative development sector, … identified several key changes that are needed in how the design, construction and adaptation of apartments occurs to …
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brief 22nd November 2022

Can welfare reform really give consumers housing choice?

… housing choice? In countries such as the UK, the USA and Denmark there have been moves towards more individualised … – to create market signals and quasi-choices in the design of government services (e.g. choice based letting in … Equity schemes or the First Home Owners Grant to newly built dwellings only. An example is the Western Australian …
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brief 19th October 2022

Reducing the energy costs of rental housing

… costs of rental housing With energy costs for home heating and cooling likely to be high for some time, particularly … lung cancers and asthma attacks , particularly in built up areas with high concentrations of homes that rely on … guidelines issued by the NSW Department of Planning and Environment permit ‘ slow combustion wood burning heaters …
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brief 7th March 2019

Are greyfield suburbs the key to housing our growing population?

… of accommodating this growing population is by rebuilding and regenerating ‘greyfield’ suburbs. These middle suburbs of … owned and occupied residential building stock, usually built between the late 1940s and the 1970s, that is failing … development ‘requires a risk averse approach and therefore design innovation is infrequent; familiarity and lowered …
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