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Cities & Housing - Publications


This page lists publications available online. Please also see the full listing of Cities and Housing and ISR publications.

Public-Private Partnerships and Effective Risk Management for Local Government (2004), Ronald Aspin

Presented to the 19th EAROPH World Planning and Housing Congress & Australian National Housing Conference 2004

Medium Density Housing in Melbourne: The Management of Sustainable and Democratic Local Communities under Global Pressure for Increased Urban Efficiencies (2004), Tom Alves
Presented to the 19th EAROPH World Planning and Housing Congress & Australian National Housing Conference 2004

The Future of Aged Persons Housing: What Role for Independent Living Units? (2004), Sean McNelis
Presented to a seminar on "Current and Future Challenges Facing the provision of Independent Housing and Services for Victorian Seniors" organised by the Victorian Association of Health and Extended Care (VAHEC), the peak body for Aged and Community Care, on 30 July 2004.

Managing Social Housing for Indigenous Populations (2004), Terry Burke
Presented to the Asian Pacific Network for Housing Research (APNHR) conference on "Housing and Social Development" in Hong Kong, February 2004.

Governance and Social Housing: Can Good Governance Be Bad Practice? (2004), Terry Burke
Presented to the "Housing in the 21st Century" conference organised by the Hong Kong Housing Authority.

Housing Affordability (2003), Terry Burke
Paper written for the Swinburne-Monash AHURI Workshop.

Independent Living Units: The Forgotten Social Housing Sector (2003), Sean McNelis
Paper presented to the "Housing Futures in an Ageing Australia Conference" sponsored by AHURI and the Myer Foundation held in Melbourne in 2003. It presents the key findings and implications of a Swinburne-Monash AHURI Project on Independent Living Units (ILUs).

Moving Towards an Integrated Facilities Management Tool to Evaluate Facilities for Service Performance in Local Government (2002), Nicola Brackertz and Russell Kenley
Paper presented to the CIB W70 2002 conference in Brisbane

Challenges for Victorian Housing Practice (2002), Terry Burke
Paper presented to the Australasian Housing Institute (Victorian Division), Melbourne, 24 October 2002

A Service Delivery Approach to Measuring Faciltiy Performance in Local Government (2002), Nicola Brackertz and Russell Kenley
Published in Facilities, vol. 20, issue 3/4, 2002, pp 127-135

Housing Affordability (2001), Terry Burke
Summary of talk to AHURI National Housing Policy Workshop, 15 March, 2001

Melbourne's Housing Past, Housing Futures (2000)
A report commissioned by the Victorian state Department of Infrastructure and Planning about the housing and urban futures of metropolitan Melbourne.

Oswald Barnett Orations

Performance Indicators and Social Housing in Australia (2001), Terry Burke and David Hayward
This paper critically analyses performance indicators as used in the social housing system of Australia.

Social Exclusion and the Private Rental Sector: The Experiences of Three Market Liberal Countries (2000), Kath Hulse and Terry Burke
The paper examines the nature of social exclusion associated with a largely unregulated, private rental sector in Australia, Canada and the USA.

Private Rental in Australia (1999), Terry Burke
Australia is one of a handful of countries where the private rental sector has been going through a period of expansion. Whether such a process is necessarily positive and in the long-term public good is a contested point.