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Recent Twitter exchanges have helped me to understand a couple of additional confusions in the housing supply debates. Let me take them one ...

Sam Bowman thinks that a lack of supply is the primary reason for high home prices. I just released a podcast  with Ian Mulheirn going into...

A puzzle came via twitter following the crazy story of RBA research claiming that if you remove planning controls, apartment prices will fal...

Read my full submission here . The NSW government has been conducting a review of taxes and federal financial relations. One of the main pr...

* Read Gigi's piece at The Conversation Twitter is a mob, and the mob has a new enemy. Professor Gigi Foster has been on a few tel...

The New South Wales government is creating a long-term housing strategy . Hooray! You can read my submission  here . What's the strategy...

Let’s retire this debate and the endless word-games . A Job Guarantee (JG) is a way to guarantee a certain income level to anyone willing...

Review of Infrastructure Contributions Dr Cameron K. Murray Henry Halloran Trust, The University of Sydney May 2020 Download this su...

A common objective of town planning schemes is the densification of existing suburbs to create “ missing middle ” density. This is usually...

Housing supply is one of the most misunderstood processes in economics. The reason for this is that the core standard theory of economics is...