Innovation in Affordable Housing in Australia: Bringing Policy and Practice for Not-For-Profit Housing Organisations Together

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Author	Milligan, Vivienne Gurran, Nicole Lawson, Julie Phibbs, Peter Phillips, Rhonda
Copyright Year	2009
Abstract	ing from these kinds of specific qualities, not-for-profit housing organisations, like the broader class of organisations to which they belong, can be said to have values and missions that are oriented to contributing to social capital and community engagement (Putnam 2000, Koebel 1998). Recently, some not-for-profit organisations have also been described as ‘entrepreneurial’ (Barraket 2008). This is in recognition of the trend for some organisations to move away from merely delivering government funded services and to take on greater financial responsibility and risks that are more akin to private sector providers. These typically larger, more financially independent organisations are sometimes characterised as hybrid organisations that apply a commercial discipline to a social purpose (Barraket 2008). Thus they can be conceived of as combining elements of both government and market logic in ways that may be distinctive. Such commercially savvy but socially driven organisations are the bedrock of the affordable housing provision systems in Europe that are described in chapter 5. 15 In many countries such organisations have also played a leading role in neighbourhood renewal to contain gentrification, although less so in Australia to date. 16 Brandsen et al (2005) explore the potential usefulness of the concept of hybridity to explain what is distinctive about not-for-profit enterprise.
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