Housing: The Great Australian Dream Project
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The Great Australian Dream Project
The Great Australian Dream project looks at the impact of regulatory policy on housing affordability, home ownership and housing production. The project aims to promote policies to increase the accessibility and reduce the costs of home ownership for Australians. In particular, the Institute of Public Affairs looks at the relationship between land supply restrictions and how those restrictions artifically inflate the price of house and land. This relationship is examined in the 2006 book The Tragedy of Planning: Losing the Great Australian Dream.
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Price of a new house could be so much cheaper
A misdirected email from Justin Madden's office showed the Brumby Government at its manipulative worst. Following a planning review into the iconic...
Easier zoning would deflate home prices
Australia has 11 of the world's 25 least affordable cities for housing. The American consultancy Demographia this month released data of 272 urban...
New housing prices could be so much cheaper
The State Government levies a charge of $95,000 a hectare on land on the urban fringe that it rezones for housing. That's about $10,000 a housing...
Open convection
The Prime Minister's hint that the First Home Owners Grant might be axed has further intensified interest in a housing market which was already at...
Textbook example is not grounded in earthy reality
The mistaken idea that there is some monopoly return to land ownership, geo-rent, that can be taxed with impunity simply won't die. It doesn't...
Three-storey limit tells a tale of union domination
The Property Council agrees. So do major property developers such as Lend Lease and Australand. Town planning experts at RMIT express similar...
Publications
The great lock out: the impact of housing and land regulations in Western Australia
Government interventions in the housing market restrict the supply of land for housing and raise its costs. The public policy interventions in land supply and development markets are numerous. Centred on planning and environmental policies, they...
Sydney now has world's most unaffordable housing - New research
According to new research by the free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA), the fall of house prices in the United States has left Sydney with the most expensive housing in the world.
How land supply restrictions have locked young people out of the housing market
Adjusted for inflation, the price of houses in Australia has more than doubled (trebled in Sydney and Perth) over the past 30 years. How has this occurred? In a landmark address to the Housing Industry Association in July 2005, the Institute of...
