Ms Lucy Groenhart

Key activities

Lucy is an urban policy academic with experience in housing policy, strategic planning, urban economics, and policy evaluation. She is responsible for the co-ordination and teaching of an undergraduate environment subject, Environmental Economics, and a postgraduate planning subject, Planning Systems and Public Policy. Lucy also tutors in Managing Contemporary Planning Issues and The Origins and Development of Planning, and supervises research students.

Qualifications

• PhD University of New South Wales
• MPlan Prac (First Class Honours) University of Auckland
• BA University of Otago

Research and Scholarship

Lucy’s areas of research expertise are Australian and International housing policy, urban policy and project appraisal and evaluation, and urban economics.

Recent publications

Buxton, M. and Groenhart, L. Urban Growth Boundaries and Housing Supply, Elsevier Encyclopaedia of Housing and Home, Forthcoming 2010.

Judd, B., Olsberg, D., Quinn, J., Groenhart, L., Demirbilek, O. Housing, Land and Neighbourhood Use by Older Home Owners, Final Report, Sydney: Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute, 2010.

Groenhart, L. Affordable Housing: The Community Housing Sector in New Zealand, presentation to Centre for Housing Research Aotearoa New Zealand (CHRANZ) Annual Board Meeting, Wellington, October 9th 2007.

Groenhart, L. Economic Modelling of Public Housing Estate Renewal, paper delivered to Sustainable Urban Areas, The European Network of Housing Researchers International Conference, Rotterdam, June 2007.

Groenhart, L. Spatial Implications of the ‘New Economy’ for Office Development in Australia’s Cities’, paper delivered to the State of Australian Cities Conference, Brisbane, November 2005.

Groenhart, L. and McDougall, A. Recent Experiences in Facilitating Urban Change in Victorian Activity Centres, Australian Planner, March 2007.

Doctoral Thesis Summary

The MOSAIC project seeks to develop a framework for longitudinal studies that collect data to measure and evaluate the financial, social and economic outcomes of Housing New South Wales’ projects and programs. Lucy’s research ‘Evaluating Social Housing Policy: A Wicked Problem?’ provides a method of measuring and quantifying the indirect costs and benefits of social housing estate renewal so that these can be incorporated into the MOSAIC evaluation framework.

Accomplishments and achievements

• Australian Postgraduate Award (Industry), University of New South Wales
• Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute PhD Scholarship
• Masters Scholarship, Auckland University
• Summer Research Scholarship, School of History, College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
• Anna P. Stout Scholarship in Arts, University of Otago