NextGen: the next generation of Australian affordable housing for urban neighbourhoods

Project Member(s): Onyx, J., Prior, J.

Start year: 2010

Summary: AIMS: Identify ways to mitigate the Australian housing affordability crisis at an urban neighbourhood level for sustainable developments that house people on mid-to-low incomes. This will be through establishing and modelling the influence of design and typologies, regulations, costing, ownership, infrastructure, socio-cultural attitudes. SIGNIFICANCE: Applying a multidisciplinary approach to understanding the interconnectivity of the factors affecting affordability. Deriving affordability options that appeal economically to developers will be a key innovation. Developing a new qualitative response model for ¿what if¿ housing scenarios. OUTCOMES: Conference papers, journal publications, public web-based Wiki and online ¿what if¿ modelling tool. Public symposium and exhibition with catalogue. Public, national press coverage. Development of postgraduate courses at UTS in collaboration with RMIT.

FOR Codes: Architectural Design, Urban Analysis and Development, Urban Sociology and Community Studies, Expanding Knowledge in Built Environment and Design

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.