Under pressure from fiscal austerity measures, rapidly rising housing prices and growing wealth disparities, cities are increasingly unable to meet the need for affordable and accessible housing for their citizens. Across many regions, including Australia, the UK, the US and much of mainland Europe, responsibility for the delivery of this housing is being devolved from the government to cross-sectoral partnerships between state, for-profit and not-for-profit actors. At the same time, access to affordable housing in many of these regions has drastically declined. New partnerships, models of delivery and governance structures are emerging in this context, often conceptualized through the lens of organizational hybridity. While literature has substantially unpacked the overarching trend towards organizational hybridity, it hasn’t examined the business models that make this possible. In this paper, we argue that understanding the governance arrangements and partnerships, target populations, prioritization of social and economic values and institutional frameworks within which housing is delivered can elucidate the capacity (or lack thereof) for housing projects and organizations to scale. Understanding these business models reveals the strategies that are currently privileged or constrained in current housing policy, the residents most likely to benefit from existing housing delivery and the pathways that may allow for the scaling of housing solutions.

在财政紧缩措施，迅速上涨的住房价格和日益扩大的贫富差距的压力下，城市越来越无法满足其公民对负担得起的住房需求的需求。在包括澳大利亚，英国，美国和欧洲大陆大部分地区在内的许多地区，交付住房的责任已从政府转移到州，营利性和非营利性参与者之间的跨部门合作伙伴关系。同时，许多这些地区获得可负担住房的机会急剧下降。在这种情况下，新的伙伴关系，执行模式和治理结构正在涌现，通常是通过组织混合性的角度来概念化的。尽管文献已经充分揭示了组织混合的总体趋势，它没有研究使之成为可能的商业模型。在本文中，我们认为，了解治理安排和伙伴关系，目标人群，社会和经济价值的优先次序以及提供住房的体制框架可以阐明住房项目和组织规模扩张的能力（或缺乏能力）。了解这些商业模式将揭示当前住房政策中当前特权或约束的策略，最有可能从现有住房交付中受益的居民以及可能扩大住房解决方案的途径。优先考虑提供住房的社会和经济价值和体制框架可以阐明住房项目和组织进行规模扩张的能力（或缺乏能力）。了解这些商业模式将揭示当前住房政策中当前特权或约束的策略，最有可能从现有住房交付中受益的居民以及可能扩大住房解决方案的途径。优先考虑提供住房的社会和经济价值和体制框架可以阐明住房项目和组织进行规模扩张的能力（或缺乏能力）。了解这些商业模式将揭示当前住房政策中当前特权或约束的策略，最有可能从现有住房交付中受益的居民以及可能扩大住房解决方案的途径。