After enjoying great economic prosperity during the mining boom, Perth now finds itself grappling with the challenges of pursuing a compact city agenda in a more financially precarious era. The effects of this new era are already emerging; for example, while the high-profile Elizabeth Quay waterfront redevelopment opened recently, some of its associated private development […]
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The Political Economy of the Compact City: the Story from Perth
April 27th, 2016 · No Comments · Cities, Government, Housing supply, Planning reform, Transport
Tags:Cities·high density·Planning·strategic planning·urban renewal
The tax reform right under Turnbull’s nose
April 5th, 2016 · 2 Comments · Affordability, Government, Transport
Three days was all it took for ‘the most fundamental reform to the Federation in generations‘ – Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s proposal to allow each of the States to set its own income tax, at different rates, on top of the Federal income tax – to be consigned by State and Territory leaders to history […]
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Projections, targets, forecasts and models: how do Sydney’s metro strategies try to anticipate our future housing needs?
March 8th, 2016 · No Comments · Government, Housing, Housing supply
Please upgrade your browser By Laura Crommelin, Laurence Troy and Ray Bunker As the planning boffins out there will know, Sydney has been the subject of three metropolitan strategies in the past decade – 2005’s City of Cities, 2010’s Plan for 2036 and 2014’s Plan for a Growing Sydney. In a recent working paper, City […]
Tags:Planning
Would negative gearing reform push up rents?
March 3rd, 2016 · No Comments · Affordability, Government
Modeller to the property industry, BIS Shrapnel, reckons reforming negative gearing would increase rents by 4-10 per cent. Is that right? First, always keep in mind that when property interests ‘warn’ about rent increases, you should suspect an ulterior motive. Landlords and their representatives aren’t worried about or afraid of rent increases – they love […]
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Climate Change Adaptation for Settlements and Infrastructure
February 25th, 2016 · No Comments · Climate change, Government
(Visualisation of a current climate 100 year flood event in southeast Queensland) The Australian Climate Change Adaptation Research Network for Settlements and Infrastructure (ACCARNSI) Forum and Workshop was held 15 – 17, February 2016 on the Campus of the University of Canberra, ACT. ACCARNSI is one of four National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (NCCARF) […]
Tags:Planning
Tenancy law reform for ‘secure occupancy’
February 8th, 2016 · No Comments · Government, Law, Tenancy
New South Wales tenancy laws are under review, and City Futures has made a submission drawing on our research into how well Australia and other countries provide for ‘secure occupancy’ in rental housing. The research, conducted in collaboration with Swinburne University for AHURI, sought to capture the extent to which households in rental housing can […]
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More questions than answers in NSW ‘strategic housing’ announcement
January 26th, 2016 · 1 Comment · Government, Housing supply, Uncategorized
By Hal Pawson and Vivienne Milligan Finally, the long wait is over. Five years after taking office the State Government’s Family and Community Services Department (FACS) has at last pronounced on ‘Future Directions for Social Housing in NSW’. All of the paper’s broad themes – modernisation, additional supply and supporting tenants – will resonate with the […]
Tags:Social housing
Hopes of a new urban age survive minister’s fall
January 20th, 2016 · No Comments · Cities, Government, Guest appearance
By Robert Freestone, Professor of Planning, Faculty of Built Environment, UNSW. Originially published at The Conversation. The resignation of Australia’s first minister for cities and the built environment after just 99 days is a setback for federal leadership in these areas. Yet enough momentum and goodwill have been generated to keep the flag flying. The […]
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Are we seeing a new dawn for affordable housing?
December 17th, 2015 · No Comments · Government
By Hal Pawson and Vivienne Milligan. Originally published at The Conversation. Potentially trailblazing plans for state-assisted financing of affordable housing are emerging in New South Wales. In what looks to be a landmark policy announcement with possible national ramifications, the NSW government last week outlined the first phase of Premier Mike Baird’s March 2015 election […]
The Political Economy of the Compact City: the Story from Sydney
December 4th, 2015 · No Comments · Cities, Government, Housing, Planning reform
There are few more contentious urban projects than Barangaroo, the history of which was recently described as “a quintessentially Sydney story”. It’s a description that highlights the complex and contested nature of Sydney’s urban renewal landscape, which is also revealed in a new City Futures Working Paper by Dr Raymond Bunker. Entitled The changing political […]
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