Dry Bones Connecting Housing

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Dry Bones Connecting Housing

• Dr Ian Winter, Executive Director
• Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute
• Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
  Conference
• Connected Challenges, Connecting Responses
• 30 November 2005, Canberra
• Dry bones

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Structure of Paper

• Connections
• Connecting institutions behind housing policy
• Connecting housing research to its core
  disciplines
• Connecting housing outcomes and other key aspects
  of peoples lives
• Connecting non-housing policies and housing
  outcomes
• Connecting possibilities of realist evaluation
  research
• Connecting principles in housing policy reform

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Institutional Framework
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Realist Evaluation
M C O
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Financial Incentives
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Low Income Renters in Low Rent Stock
Chart 2 Low Income Private renters accessing
low rent stock by region
60
50
40
of low income households accessing low rent
stock
30
20
10
0
Sydney
All cities
Non-metropolitan
Melbourne
Brisbane
Adelaide
Perth
Hobart
Darwin
Canberra
Source Yates, J., Wulff, M. and Reynolds, M.
(February 2005), Research and Policy Bulletin
Issue 50, Australian Housing and Urban Research
Institute.
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Neighbourhoods of Connection
Neighbourhoods of connection are communities
which link families to opportunity, wherever that
opportunity is located. This requires a new,
profound and sustained commitment to improving
the educational offer in these communities and
the cities in which they are largely located. It
also requires a new, mature and pragmatic vision
of the changing geography of opportunity,
particularly with regard to jobs and other
housing choices. (Katz, B. 2004 Neighbourhoods
of choice and connection, Brookings Institution.
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Conclusion

• Connecting institutions behind housing policy
• Connecting housing research to its core
  disciplines
• Connecting housing outcomes and other key aspects
  of peoples lives
• Connecting non housing policies and housing
  outcomes
• Connecting possibilities of realist evaluation
  research
• Connecting principles in housing policy reform
• Dry bones