2021-12-13 GC Agenda - Item 8 -Attachment 1 - Housing Needs Assessment

8. Existing Housing Supply and Dwelling
   Characteristics
8.1           What is Housing Diversity?
The AHURI report on Urban regulation and diverse housing supply: An Investigative Panel32
suggests that diverse housing might be defined as any housing type that differs to the majority of
housing stock in terms of its:
•      size and built form— e.g. it offers an alternative to detached housing;
•      development model— it differs to the mainstream speculative land and development model;
       or
•      tenure— it is situated in the middle of the housing continuum, offering an alternative to
       traditional ownership and rental tenures.
The report includes the following overview of these different elements of housing diversity,
including examples.
Figure 17 Elements of housing diversity with potential to support more affordable housing supply




8.2           Dwelling structures and household size
Table 18, extracted from the ABS 2016 Census of Population and Housing shows the count of
occupied private dwellings (excludes 'Visitors only' and 'Other non-classifiable' households) and all
persons counted in the dwelling on Census Night, including visitors from within Australia. Note, this
is not based on usual place of residence.



32 Gilbert, C., Rowley, S., Gurran, N., Leishman, C., Mouritz, M., Raynor, K. and Cornell, C. (Dec 2020) Urban

regulation and diverse housing supply: An Investigative Panel, AHURI Final Report No. 349, Australian
Housing and Urban Research Institute Limited, Melbourne.


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