Modern Australian

Affordable home-ownership scheme offers a pathway out of social housing

  • Written by Katrina Raynor, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Transforming Housing Project, University of Melbourne
Affordable home-ownership scheme offers a pathway out of social housingThe Melbourne Apartments Project developed by the Barnett Foundation offered 28 units to households living within 4km of the site and willing to leave their social housing.Barnett Foundation, Author provided

Social housing is in crisis in Australia, with almost 200,000 people on waiting lists. Social housing made up 8% of all housing stock in...