Can planning deliver affordable housing?
Dr Tony Gilmour and Samantha Czyz writing in the October 2011 edition of HousingWORKS, the Australasian Housing Institute Journal, discuss how planning tools in Australia can be used to encourage affordable housing. The article draws on primary research undertaken by Samantha for her Master in Urban and Regional Planning degree at Sydney University.
Back to the High Street – Part 1
Writing in the Fifth Estate – an innovative website for news and networking on sustainable property in Australia – Jane Jose, specialist writer and urban strategist with Elton Consulting, talks about the essential human dimension in planning successful mainstreets.
Planning power: delivering affordable housing
Writing in the September 2010 edition of New Planner, Tony Gilmour draws lessons from innovation by City West Housing in Sydney, Port Phillip in Melbourne and the inclusionary planning schemes in South Australia. These schemes show that ‘planning power’ can play an important role, though only in conjunction with working partnerships and new forms of affordable housing finance.
Common Ground: common approach?
Tony Gilmour and Georgie Wheadon of Elton Consulting, writing in the latest edition of Housing Works, point out that Australia has been the main country to follow the pioneering lead of Common Ground in New York.
International approaches to building community housing capacity
In March 2010 Elton Consulting appointed Dr Tony Gilmour to lead our housing practice. Tony’s PhD at the University of Sydney contrasted international approaches to building community housing capacity in Melbourne, Manchester and San Francisco.
Local government role in redressing neighbourhood disadvantage
The role of local government in redressing neighbourhood disadvantage: A case study from Penrith City Council is a publication by Jason Prior (UTS, Sydney / Elton Consulting) written for Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance, Pacific Focus.