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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.

Abstract Social housing is an asset-intensive business, and the value of these assets globally runs into trillions of dollars. Although knowledge about social housing asset management practices is limited the evidence suggests assets may not be effectively managed. In social housing research asset management at the strategic level has been conceptualized but how strategy relates to tactics and operations has not attracted attention although the need for this to occur has been identified. This article provides a guide for social housing asset management as a comprehensive, integrated system, drawn from the relatively new field of Asset Management, filling a significant knowledge gap. The work draws on a collaboration between academics and industry stakeholders to develop a specialist asset management manual for social housing organizations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article informs about AHURI's Inquiry into housing policies and practices for precariously housed older Australians. Topics include the demographic characteristics of older lower-income renters, their housing aspirations and preferences for alternative housing options, constraints to alternative housing supply, and policy development options such as regional and metropolitan development, planning, taxes and charges, regulation, subsidies, and an information and support gateway.

The article informs about a study focusing on mapping Australia's older, low-income renters. Topics include the demographic profile of this group, their housing needs, and the geographic distribution of such renters across different states and territories. The study highlights the challenges these renters face, with a projected increase in their numbers and the need for innovative housing solutions to support their wellbeing as they age.

The article highlights the scarcity of sustainable features in apartment buildings and the gap between consumer demand and construction. It emphasizes the challenges of shared management and proposes policy reforms to promote sustainability in project feasibility, design implementation, property valuation, shared services, consumer information, and joint ownership considerations.

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 social housing is a distinct asset subclass with unique asset management challenges that necessitate placing the tenant at the centre of provision. Topics include the greatly varying asset management planning, practice and performance are driven by differences in ownership, regulation and financing, and the social housing sector is seriously constrained in its ability to maintain, renew and configure stock to meet and future demand.

German Baugruppen are the most well-known of the collaborative, self-organized alternatives to speculatively produced multi-residential housing, delivering housing at a significant price discount to market. However, Baugruppen have been criticized for excluding less affluent households with financing and social capital barriers identified by Hamiduddin and Gallent as reinforcing socio-economic stratification. Collaborative, self-organized housing is, however, under-researched and there has been scant attention to financing. Collaborative, self-organized multi-residential housing in Australia is known as 'deliberative' development to differentiate it from 'speculative' development. We draw on case studies of deliberative development in Australia to reveal how projects are financed and how financing impacts on social equity considerations. Proponents of contemporary deliberative development in Australia are deeply concerned about housing affordability and declining rates of home ownership. This has focused attention on development financing as a key to systemic change paving the way for inclusion of less wealthy households. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]