housing affordability Archive
Housing and Consolidation: Challenging New Paper
So, having just written I am unabashedly in favour of increasing population densities in the Inner West, in my usual read-like-a-crazy-man way I stumbled across a quasi-counterpaper from Journal of the American Planning Association. Download the pdf here (1Mb) . I include it here in interests of balanced debate. The study’s no knockdown – it’s […]
7/8/2012
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Housing: Look First At Councils
Michael Koziol has called out both Leichhardt Council and its minority of nay-saying residents in a long overdue Sydney Morning Herald article. God knows how the only paying reader of the SMH will take this: Sydney’s housing crisis is substantially the fault of “narrow-minded, self-interested individuals who oppose the building of any new homes in […]
6/8/2012
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Housing Affordability Culprit Found: No Action Taken
Excitement! Someone has actually started making a serious argument about what is really driving housing affordability issues. Well, the Housing Industry Association has, which is a pity because they hardly present as having an impartial perspective. Report done by the Centre for International Economics. Key finding: 36-44% of final price driven by tax and government […]
12/4/2012
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