By Dr Alistair Sisson

Books

Betteridge B; Chatterjee P; Emmanuel L; Fairall A; Garrett B; Graff M; Iveson K; Legg R; Maalsen S; Melo Zurita MDL; Murray W; Pill M; Rogers D; Sadowski J; Sisson A; Tattersall A; Webber S, 2018, Sydney - We Need to Talk!.

Book Chapters

Sisson A; Morris A, 2026, 'Counting the cost of public housing: uses and abuses of subsidy statistics', in The Data Politics of Housing, Property and Planning, Bristol University Press, pp. 85 - 97, http://dx.doi.org/10.51952/9781447379362.ch006

Blatman N; Sisson A, 2024, 'Rethinking housing inequality and justice in a settler colonial city', in Research Handbook on Housing the Home and Society, pp. 548 - 566, http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781800375970.00045

Dowling R; McGuirk P; Sisson A, 2023, 'Reinforcing and refracting automobility', in Artificial Intelligence and the City, Taylor & Francis, pp. 23 - 37, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003365877-3

Dowling R; McGuirk P; Sisson A, 2023, 'REINFORCING AND REFRACTING AUTOMOBILITY: Urban experimentation with autonomous vehicles', in Artificial Intelligence and the City Urbanistic Perspectives on Ai, pp. 23 - 37, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003365877-3

Sisson A; Condie J; Chatterjee P; Wynne L, 2022, 'Overcoming over-research? Reflections from Sydney's ‘Petri dish'', in Over Researched Places Towards A Critical and Reflexive Approach, pp. 24 - 36, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003099291-3

Sisson A; Rogers D, 2020, 'Housing', in Kobayashi A (ed.), International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (Second Edition), pp. 69 - 73, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-102295-5.10269-0

Journal articles

Khosravi H; Sisson A; Ruming K, 2026, 'Affordable Housing in Australia: The Neoliberalisation of Subsidised Rental Housing', Society, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12115-026-01203-2

Ruming K; Sisson A; Murphy-May L, 2026, 'Framing the housing crisis: narratives of housing supply and planning reform', International Journal of Housing Policy, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19491247.2026.2675962

Sisson A; Murphy-May L; Ruming K, 2026, 'Negotiating Transit-Oriented Development: Targets, Planning and Place', Urban Policy and Research, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08111146.2026.2685506

Baker T; Sisson A; McGuirk P; Dowling R; Maalsen S, 2025, 'BLOOMBERG'S GLOBAL MAYORALTY: Philanthropy and the ‘Crisis of Capacity’ in City Government', International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 49, pp. 267 - 284, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.13307

Sisson A; Ruming K, 2025, 'Calculating the system-wide supply impacts of social housing estate renewal: new measures and methods', Housing Studies, 40, pp. 1821 - 1845, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2024.2378852

McGuirk P; Baker T; Dowling R; Maalsen S; Sisson A, 2025, 'Enacting urban governance innovation: beyond strategic pathways to incremental “muddling through”', Urban Geography, 46, pp. 1539 - 1563, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2024.2441593

Sisson A; McGuirk P; Dowling R; Baker T; Maalsen S, 2025, 'Innovating urban governance through ‘Challenges’', Journal of Urban Affairs, 47, pp. 1229 - 1245, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2023.2219006

Chatterjee P; Sisson A; Condie J, 2024, 'How Can Scholarship Contribute to Housing Justice? Three Roles for Researchers', Housing Theory and Society, 41, pp. 591 - 607, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14036096.2024.2321214

Sisson A, 2024, 'Public housing and territorial stigma: towards a symbolic and political economy', Housing Studies, 39, pp. 1199 - 1218, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2022.2108383

Zanardo M; Sisson A; Logan C; McLaughlan R, 2024, 'Wilful ignorance at Waterloo: public housing quality and political stigma in Sydney's largest estate renewal', Planning Perspectives, 39, pp. 1207 - 1239, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2024.2337268

Sisson A, 2024, 'Bourdieu down under', Dialogues in Urban Research, 2, pp. 415 - 418, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/27541258241233487

Iveson K; Sisson A, 2023, 'Transmission and territory: Urban bordering during COVID-19', Political Geography, 104, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2023.102910

Martin C; Sisson A; Thompson S, 2023, 'Reluctant regulators? Rent regulation in Australia during the COVID-19 pandemic', International Journal of Housing Policy, 23, pp. 783 - 803, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19491247.2021.1983246

Blatman N; Sisson A, 2023, 'Rethinking housing inequality and justice in a settler colonial city', International Journal of Housing Policy, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19491247.2023.2269621

McGuirk P; Baker T; Sisson A; Dowling R; Maalsen S, 2022, 'Innovating urban governance: A research agenda', Progress in Human Geography, 46, pp. 1391 - 1412, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/03091325221127298

Chatterjee P; Sisson A; Condie J; Wynne L; Lewis C; Skipper C, 2022, 'Documentary and resistance: There Goes Our Neighbourhood, #WeLiveHere2017 and the Waterloo estate redevelopment', International Journal of Housing Policy, 22, pp. 329 - 350, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19491247.2020.1851636

Nygaard C; van den Nouwelant R; Glackin S; Martin C; Sisson A, 2022, 'Filtering as a source of low-income housing in Australia: conceptualisation and testing', Ahuri Final Report, http://dx.doi.org/10.18408/ahuri5124401

Sisson A, 2021, 'Territory and territorial stigmatisation: On the production, consequences and contestation of spatial disrepute', Progress in Human Geography, 45, pp. 659 - 681, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0309132520936760

Sisson A, 2021, 'DENIGRATING BY NUMBERS: Quantification, Statistics and Territorial Stigma', International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 45, pp. 407 - 422, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.13009

Meese H; Baker T; Sisson A, 2020, '#WeAreBeneficiaries: Contesting Poverty Stigma Through Social Media', Antipode, 52, pp. 1152 - 1174, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/anti.12617

Iveson K, 2020, 'The New Enclosure: A view on landownership from Sydney', Dialogues in Human Geography, 10, pp. 61 - 65, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2043820619878056

Sisson A; Rogers D; Gibson C, 2019, 'Property speculation, global capital, urban planning and financialisation: Sydney Boom, Sydney Bust redux', Australian Geographer, 50, pp. 1 - 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00049182.2018.1464365

Chatterjee P; Condie J; Sisson A; Wynne L, 2019, 'Imploding activism: challenges of housing scholar-activism in the neoliberal city & university', Radical Housing Journal, 1, pp. 189 - 204, https://radicalhousingjournal.org/2019/imploding-activism/

Sisson A; Maginn PJ, 2018, '“Reclaiming Northbridge”: Urban (Dis)Order and Territorial Stigmatisation in Perth’s Night Time Economy precinct', Urban Policy and Research, 36, pp. 123 - 137, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08111146.2018.1460266

Reports

Wilson S; Spies-Butcher B; Stebbing A; Ruming K; Sisson A, 2025, Housing and the 2025 Australian Federal Election: Between Crisis and Inertia, Macquarie University Housing and Urban Research Centre, https://www.mq.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/1357321/Housing-and-Election-Report.pdf

Sisson A; Bowyer-Pont P, 2023, Regulating rents: international examples & experience, Shelter NSW & Tenants Union of NSW, https://files.tenants.org.au/policy/2023-11-RentRegulation-Sisson.pdf

Pawson H; Martin C; Sisson A; Thompson S; Fitzpatrick S; March A, 2021, COVID-19: Rental housing and homelessness impacts – an initial analysis, ACOSS and UNSW, Sydney, 1, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/27950, http://povertyandinequality.acoss.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/COVID19_Rental-housing-and-homelessness-impacts_report-1.pdf

Sisson A; Wynne L, 2021, Public housing renewal in the Illawarra: Understanding the risks of tenant displacement, https://shelternsw.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/211130_UOW_PublicHousingRenewal_Final.pdf

Easthope H; Thompson S; Sisson A, 2020, Australasian Strata Insights, City Futures Research Centre, Sydney, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/27904, https://cityfutures.be.unsw.edu.au/research/projects/2020-australasian-strata-insights/

Media

Sisson A; Spies-Butcher B; Ruming K; Wilson S; Stebbing A, 2025, As the home ownership dream fades, Australians may be open to a frank conversation about house prices, https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10/as-the-homeownership-dream-fades-australians-may-be-open-to-a-frank-conversation-about-house-prices/

Spies-Butcher B; Stebbing A; Sisson A; Ruming K; Wilson S, 2025, Most Australians agree there’s a housing crisis. But they differ on what’s causing it – and how to fix it, https://theconversation.com/most-australians-agree-theres-a-housing-crisis-but-they-differ-on-whats-causing-it-and-how-to-fix-it-267963

Baker T; Sisson A; Goh L; McGuirk P; Maalsen S, 2024, The ‘world’s mayor’ – how Michael Bloomberg uses philanthropy to change the way cities are run, https://theconversation.com/the-worlds-mayor-how-michael-bloomberg-uses-philanthropy-to-change-the-way-cities-are-run-237538

Sisson A, 2024, Rent regulations are no silver bullet, but they would help make renting fairer, http://dx.doi.org/10.64628/AA.k33e4m4r7

Sisson A; Logan C; Zanardo M; McLaughlan R, 2024, Sydney’s largest public housing estate is being redeveloped, but not all these homes need to be demolished, https://theconversation.com/sydneys-largest-public-housing-estate-is-being-redeveloped-but-not-all-these-homes-need-to-be-demolished-236514

Sisson A, 2024, The YIMBY movement is spreading around the world. What does it mean for Australia’s housing crisis?, https://theconversation.com/the-yimby-movement-is-spreading-around-the-world-what-does-it-mean-for-australias-housing-crisis-219313

Sisson A, 2023, A call to arms for architects and planners: We must refurbish public housing, not knock it down, https://thefifthestate.com.au/columns/spinifex/a-call-to-arms-for-architects-and-planners-we-must-refurbish-public-housing-not-knock-it-down/

Sisson A, 2023, Australia must realise the best form of rent control is public housing, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/apr/16/australia-must-realise-the-best-form-of-rent-control-is-public-housing

Davies L; Sisson A; Kelly D; Kunjan P, 2023, Yes, the 1.5 million Australians getting rent assistance need an increase, but more public housing is the lasting fix for the crisis, http://dx.doi.org/10.64628/AA.m7k6akn6q

Sisson A; Iveson K, 2023, YIMBY or NIMBY? Both are worse..., https://arena.org.au/yimby-or-nimby-both-are-worse/

Sisson A; Chatterjee P, 2020, Why public housing is stigmatised and how we can fix it, https://theconversation.com/why-public-housing-is-stigmatised-and-how-we-can-fix-it-142913

Sisson A; Maginn P, 2018, 'Sanitised' nightlife precincts become places where some are not welcome, http://theconversation.com/sanitised-nightlife-precincts-become-places-where-some-are-not-welcome-95870

Sisson A; Rogers D, 2018, Essays On Air: Australia's property boom and bust cycle stretches back to colonial days, http://theconversation.com/essays-on-air-australias-property-boom-and-bust-cycle-stretches-back-to-colonial-days-96415

Chatterjee P; Sisson A; Condie J; Wynne L, 2018, We still live here: public housing tenants fight for their place in the city, http://theconversation.com/we-still-live-here-public-housing-tenants-fight-for-their-place-in-the-city-107188

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