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Sunday, April 24, 2022
A social housing fund is bad policy
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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...
Sunday, April 10, 2022
Housing stock per capita mostly measures demographics
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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...
Wednesday, March 16, 2022
Why politicians must pretend to want cheap housing
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UQPPES Statecraft Autumn Lecture, March 2022 Let me start with my thesis. Much of the contemporary debate about housing affordability is a d...
Sunday, March 13, 2022
Falinski's housing inquiry report will be peppered with lobbyist catch phrases...
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...and many journalists will lap it up uncritically. Like the dozens of previous housing inquiries before it, Falinski’s inquiry into housin...
Sunday, March 6, 2022
My COVID story - Part 2
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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 ...
Monday, February 28, 2022
If planning constrains housing supply, how does it do it?
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I’ve long puzzled over the exact mechanism by which planning regulations are supposed to constrain the rate of new housing supply. Sure, the...
Monday, February 21, 2022
My COVID story - Part 1
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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...
Wednesday, February 2, 2022
New metrics to show the value of delaying housing supply
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*This article is based on a submission to the Housing Supply Inquiry that I contributed to for Prosper Australia. This neglected economic ...
Wednesday, December 15, 2021
Ignoring age and COVID risk is unscientific
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I listened to a frustrating Sam Harris podcast about COVID policy yesterday. What struck me about these "expert" commentators was...
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Saturday, December 4, 2021
Did Germany and Tokyo really get affordable housing through planning?
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Not that long ago Germany as a whole f eatured heavily in this debate over planning rules and house prices. With Frankfurt topping the lates...
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