Housing policy · Planning · Governance · Project coordination
Affordable housing: connecting policy with delivery pathways
Connecting affordable-housing priorities with planning processes, Council land and the practical decisions needed to assess delivery options.
Project context
- Organisation
- Merri-bek City Council
- Context
- Social and affordable housing policy, 2022–2023
- Practice
- Housing policy · Planning · Governance · Project coordination
Alisha’s contribution
As Principal Advisor, Social and Affordable Housing, Alisha led review and policy development for the Affordable Housing Action Plan and finalised an Affordable Housing Planning Protocol. She connected housing priorities with planning, Council land, homelessness and broader social policy.
Planning advice and policy mechanisms
Alisha finalised the Affordable Housing Planning Protocol and worked on Pathways assessment reporting to support consistent planning advice. She also contributed to work on voluntary affordable-housing contributions and section 173 agreements, and represented Council through M9 housing advocacy.
Working across the delivery process
Her work included coordinating an expression-of-interest and land-disposal pathway for a Council-owned property, bringing together planning, feasibility, legal, property, finance and governance inputs. She also contributed to Council-site feasibility work, housing-sector partnerships and regional advocacy.
Making the limits of a proposal visible
Alisha’s contribution concerned policy, feasibility and governance processes. It does not represent a claim that she delivered a completed housing development. The linked public Council minutes provide the later history of the Sutherland Street proposal.
Relevant consulting support
Soft Infrastructure can support housing-policy reviews, cross-team coordination, options analysis and implementation planning, with clarity about the decisions, dependencies and evidence required at each stage.
Official information and sources
Public sources provide programme, policy and research background. The contribution described above is Alisha’s account of her experience; these links do not independently verify every personal contribution or imply organisational endorsement.
Contribution, evidence and limits
This account describes Alisha’s contribution in the project context identified above. Read the role credits and source links alongside the account. Prior Council employment and partner-led work inform Soft Infrastructure’s practice; they are not presented as new consulting commissions. Outputs and activities are described where documented. No additional measured outcomes or causal impact are inferred.