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The article delves into the Specialist Disability Accommodation program, a support initiative provided by the National Disability Insurance Scheme in Australia, aimed at facilitating housing solutions for individuals with extreme functional impairments or high support needs. It highlights the positive impact of the program while addressing its complexities and areas for improvement such as the interaction between the social housing sector and the SDA program and the complexity of SDA processes.

The article explores gendered housing issues, revealing gender disparities in housing opportunities, assistance, and impacts, aiming to inform gender-responsive housing policies and data frameworks.

The article offers alternative housing news brief as of June 2022. Topics discussed include precarious housing has negative impacts on the health, safety and wellbeing of older people, while also undermining their capacity to age well in place; and Reforms to the private rental sector to provide greater protection for tenants and more flexible financing models can also contribute to improving affordable housing options for older Australians.

The article focuses on population growth and mobility in Australia: implications for housing and urban development policies. Topics include the population projection data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) to track how the population has grown over the period 2006–16, and the study finds that macro-scale population projections over the long-term largely align with overall population changes.

The article focuses on housing aspirations of Australians across the life-course that might closing the housing aspirations gap. Topics include the Australia's housing system enables a large majority of households to meet their short-term housing aspirations, and the Australian Housing Aspirations survey conducted as part of this research indicated their housing and living arrangements met their short term housing aspirations.

The article offers information on Australian Housing Aspirations (AHA) Survey (2018) Technical Report. Topics include the survey has captured details on housing and household circumstances and the housing required to meet the changing needs of the household including preferences and trade-offs, and the data collection organisation and research team of survey responses to ensure questions were working in the intended way while the survey has in the field.

The article presents a report which examined the housing aspirations of older Australians through a national Australian Housing Aspirations (AHA) survey and interactions. Topics discussed include discussion on factors that are influencing housing aspirations of older Australians; information on surveys that are examining the housing aspirations gap; and risk of falling out of home ownership of older Australians due to financial difficulties.

• This study examined how land use planning mechanisms can support affordable housing inclusion within new and renewing communities. • It found that 'inclusionary planning' tools leverage significant quantities of affordable housing supply in many parts of the UK and US. For instance, 12,866 affordable housing units (43% of total affordable housing output) were delivered through inclusionary planning requirements in England between 2015-16. About 12 per cent of annual housing completions in San Francisco are affordable dwellings produced through inclusionary zoning or impact fee requirements. Similar schemes apply to more than 500 cities across the United States. • In comparison to this international practice, inclusionary planning for affordable housing is not as widespread in Australia. However, South Australia delivered 5,485 affordable homes between 2005-15 through an inclusionary planning target applying to new residential areas. This amounts to around 17 per cent of total housing supply in that state. • In NSW, a planning incentive scheme introduced in 2009 has yielded around 2,000 affordable rental dwellings in Sydney, equivalent to about 1 per cent of the city's total supply. • Across all jurisdictions examined, planning system tools can support affordable housing supply, but additional funding or subsidy is usually required to produce homes affordable to those on low and very low-incomes. • Planning system tools for affordable housing supply work best when part of a wider whole-of-government strategy to address the continuum of housing needs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A report on the government-led innovations in affordable housing delivery in Australia as of October 2017 is presented. These innovations include the Western Australian Affordable Housing Strategy, the National Rental Affordability Scheme, and the East Kimberley Transitional Housing Program. Also discussed are the role of political leadership in the program, state supply of affordable housing, and federal government supply of housing.