This article is from the Australian Property Journal archive
AS part of its 2021 National Housing Research Program, University of South Australia will conduct research on sustainable neighbourhoods.
The project, entitled ‘Sustainable housing at a neighbourhood scale’, will be led by Professor Stefanie Dühr, Co-Director of the AHURI UniSa Research Centre, and is part of a larger study on housing in a circular economy let by RMIT.
“This project will investigate the opportunities for a circular economy (CE) approach at neighbourhood scale to support the transition to sustainable housing in different locations,” said Dühr.
AHURI has allocated UniSa around $200,000 for this round of National Housing Research Program funding. NHRP funding is awarded annually, based on the merit of applications.
“The neighbourhood – or precinct – scale is often given insufficient attention, but there is increasing acknowledgement that a focus on buildings alone will not be sufficient, because they do not lend themselves to broader economic and process efficiencies” said Dühr.
“Precincts have been identified as the ideal scale to reduce the use of non-renewable resources, minimise waste and use assets sustainably.”
As part of UniSa’s 2021 National Housing Research Program, the university will also support research on ‘a data-driven policy roadmap for the rental sector in post-pandemic Australia’, ‘rethinking social housing stock matching and allocations: innovations in policy and practice’, a project named ‘Crisis Accommodation in Australia: Now and for the Future’ and ‘Regulation of residential tendencies and impacts on investment in changing rental markets’.
The National Housing Research Program aims to use its research to support policy development.