Evaluation and learning in public housing urban renewal

Analysing how evaluation and learning from public housing urban renewal informs current policy and delivery.

  • Investigators

      • A/Prof Simon Pinnegar
      • University of New South Wales
      • A/Prof Christian A. Nygaard
      • Dr Iris Levin
      • Rachel Maguide
      • Swinburne University of Technology
  • Funded by

    • Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI)
  • Undertaken within


Image: Nearmap aerial photo of Rathdowne Street, Carlton, January 2013, showing works underway at a public housing site in Carlton.

Neighbourhood change through public housing urban renewal raises many complex challenges for policymakers, communities and stakeholders.

Dr Elizabeth Taylor

This project will analyse how evaluation and learning from public housing urban renewal informs current delivery of financial returns and wider social and economic outcomes. It develops a typology of public housing urban renewal and case studies of renewal trajectories in relation to site, neighbourhood and citywide reconfiguration processes.