New directions in planning for affordable housing: Australian and international evidence and implications

摘要

Affordable housing has become a major focus of Australian public policy and discourse. Much of this discourse focuses on the capacity of the land use planning system to deliver sufficient new housing supply. Following two decades of declining funds for public housing development and new infrastructure provision, supply has been 'rediscovered' as a housing policy concern, not only in Australia but also in many other developed countries (Lawson and Milligan 2008, Bramley 2007).