On creative accounting and why it’s always worth looking under the hood The Fifth Estate - our view Think we’re running out of time to save the world from catastrophic warming? Well, it seems much of the corporate world might have given up on the tight timeline needed to meet the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees above preindustrial levels. 1
Construction needs to avoid social value smokescreens Professor Martin Loosemore, University of NSW Social value can be up to 15 per cent of non-price assessments in construction tenders, but are the metrics genuine? If not, it’s a huge missed opportunity for this sector with so many multiplier effects in the economy.
Community housing gets an efficiency boost with CEFC finance Cameron Jewell | 10 September 2015 More than 200 energy efficient low-income and affordable homes are set to be built by not-for-profit community housing provider SGCH under an Australian-first agreement reached with the Clean Energy Finance…
Sydney’s flat pack home solution to the housing affordability crisis Tina Perinotto | 29 September 2016 ABC TV was in our co-lo offices in Glebe last week as part of its feature on our co-tenant Alexander Symes, an architect who is tonight (Thursday) launching his flat-pack,…
Queensland government to convert state land into big opportunities Willow Aliento | 6 October 2016 The Queensland Government has put the spotlight on affordable housing, transit-oriented development, regional renewal and renewable energy as part of a new strategy to develop underutilised state-owned land in partnership…
Sydney needs higher affordable housing targets Laurence Troy, Dallas Rogers, Emma Power, Hal Pawson, Kurt Iveson, Louise Crabtree, Michael Darcy and Peter Phibbs | 24 November 2016 The release this week by the Greater Sydney Commission of city-wide draft plans mandating some measure of affordable housing in new developments is a step in the right direction. However,…
Urban eco-villages set to change the rules of the housing game Willow Aliento | 14 December 2016 HOUSING: There’s a new player on the housing block that looks set to entirely change the rules in terms of market models.
The future of baugruppen is looking bright in Perth Cameron Jewell | 15 December 2016 HOUSING: Perth is setting itself up as a testing ground for an internationally successful co-housing model, with two baugruppen projects set to take off in the next few years.
Fact-checking Scott Morrison on affordable housing David Thorpe | 31 January 2017 The Australian Treasurer Scott Morrison has been seeking solutions to the problem of affordable housing in London. So let’s do some fact-checking on his position.
Housing: It’s not affordable housing we need to build but communities David Thorpe | 7 February 2017 The British Government is this week floating a new policy initiative to create affordable housing, with, for the first time for a Conservative government, an emphasis on renting rather than…
States drag feet on affordable housing, with Victoria the worst Carolyn Whitzman, University of Melbourne | 16 February 2017 Moral panic over recent increases in visibly homeless people in central Melbourne has brought to the fore the critical shortage of affordable housing across the metropolitan areas of Australia’s wealthiest cities.
SGCH and CEFC team up on “game changing” sustainable community housing initiative Cameron Jewell | 13 March 2017 Community housing provider SGCH will build 300 social and affordable housing units to high standards of energy efficiency, thanks to $130 million in debt finance from the Clean Energy Finance…
Nightingale from a builder’s perspective Sandra Edmunds | 23 March 2017 HOUSING: Cross laminated timber will be an exciting progression in the Nightingale Model’s triple-bottom-line approach to developing inner-city housing, according to the builder of Nightingale 1.0, which celebrate a traditional…
PwC calls for planning amendment to enable more affordable housing Cameron Jewell | 6 April 2017 Professional services firm PwC has entered the affordable housing fray, suggesting a “simple but potentially profound” solution that would allow for the increased densification of low density areas while providing…
NSW government pushes Newcastle council to fund affordable housing Cameron Jewell | 20 April 2017 The NSW government is pushing for 30 affordable housing units to be built along Newcastle’s former rail corridor, but has been accused of “steamrolling” Newcastle City Council into funding it…
Flash Forum: Louis Christopher on the state of the housing market Louis Christopher, SQM Research | 4 May 2017 The Fifth Estate’s Flash Forum started with a speedy overview of the housing market by SQM Research property analyst Louis Christopher.
