Articles by: Lou Crabtree-Hayes

Author Biography:

Lou Crabtree-Hayes is a Professorial Research Fellow in the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University. Lou’s research focuses on resilience and complexity thinking in cities, regenerative practice, and community-led housing models.

Planning, Managing and Enjoying Your Own Affordable Housing

Arena Quarterly no.26

Lou Crabtree-Hayes

Jun 2026

Housing cooperatives are an organisational form constituted to own, govern and/or manage physical housing stock, where members of the cooperative live in and manage the housing cooperative together.

Housing for Thriving in a Post-COVID World

Arena Quarterly no. 4

Lou Crabtree-Hayes, Joanne McNeill, Sidsel Grimstad, Neil Perry, Emma Power, Wendy Stone

Dec 2020

Australia’s housing system is dominated by an owning–renting tenure duopoly, but there are many other ways to configure housing access…