This study investigated the opportunities and risks for social impact investments (SII) to improve housing and homelessness outcomes in Australia. It described what social impact investing is and its application to housing and homelessness policy in Australia, as well as examined different...

This research investigated Social impact investment (SII), which aims to generate and actively measure social and financial returns. There are several promising SII models—including housing supply bonds, property funds, funding social enterprises, social impact bonds and social impact loans....

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Preface -- The State Also Rises: The Roots of Contemporary State Activism -- I Varieties of State Intervention -- 1 The Transformation of the British State: From Club Government to State-Administered High Modernism -- 2 The Forgotten Center: State...

Regulation is a universal feature of modern economic life. However, regulating the economies of advanced capitalist nations is a uniquely complex activity, crossing the boundaries between law, politics, and economics, and involving problems which affect both the regulator and the regulated. For...