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A social housing fund is a policy idea gaining traction. The ALP has proposed a $10 billion one in their election platform. The Grattan Inst...

I don’t like this chart.  Not only is there an unjustified implication of direct causality (X causes Y, and planning regulations cause X), t...

UQPPES Statecraft Autumn Lecture, March 2022 Let me start with my thesis. Much of the contemporary debate about housing affordability is a d...

...and many journalists will lap it up uncritically. Like the dozens of previous housing inquiries before it, Falinski’s inquiry into housin...

Read My COVID Story - Part 1 here . January 2021 - Sticking with the crowd I was approached to write a short piece for The Mint magazine. I ...

I’ve long puzzled over the exact mechanism by which planning regulations are supposed to constrain the rate of new housing supply. Sure, the...

March 2020 — People lose their minds My first ever public comment about COVID was this . I was both prescient and wrong. Everyone has lost t...

*This article is based on a  submission to the Housing Supply Inquiry that I contributed to for Prosper Australia. This neglected economic ...

I listened to a frustrating Sam Harris podcast about COVID policy yesterday. What struck me about these "expert" commentators was...