Some of Melbourne’s highest-amenity neighbourhoods in the inner city and south-east are lagging behind other areas in the provision of social housing, new research shows.

In Melbourne’s CBD, parts of South Yarra, Southbank, Toorak and Docklands – rich in local services such as public transport, schools, medical services, employment opportunities and leisure activities – public housing makes up 1.4 per cent or less of the suburbs’ overall housing stock.

The report , published by the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute, used data from crowdsourced platform OpenStreetMap to map neighbourhoods’ access to local amenities and services and then compared it with the local social housing stock.

Their findings show that 70 per cent or more of high-amenity neighbourhoods in four stat

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