Creating solutions for providing affordable and inclusive housing is a challenging enterprise where adequate planning policies and community participation play a fundamental role. Innovative solutions like the “Tripod model” ,although theoretical, can provide a comparative example to analyse its applicability in Melbourne. In this sense, the integration of a not for profit organizations, local government, cooperative organization, private investors, among others, is fundamental to implement a model like this. Along the same lines, in order to replicate this model in Melbourne, changes are necessary, especially those related to community participation and community integration.