Originally published at The Conversation. The Real Estate Institute of Australia (REIA) has unleashed the hounds on Labor’s proposed reforms to negative gearing. The REIA’s campaign, Negative Gearing Affects Everyone, follows the lead of the Property Council, which describes the Australian housing market as a “house of cards”, with the REIA stressing how “fragile” the […]
Entries Tagged as 'Housing supply'
Might Labor’s negative gearing policy yet save the housing market?
May 26th, 2016 · 1 Comment · Affordability, Construction, Government, Housing, Housing supply
Tags:Tax
The dust up over density
May 24th, 2016 · 2 Comments · Cities, Government, Housing supply
By Bill Randolph, Director, City Futures Research Centre. Originally published in Domain. The indicative massing strategy for the Central to Eveleigh study area. Photo: City of Sydney, UrbanGrowth We’ve all heard about the ‘Brawl over Sprawl’. Well, now we have the ‘Dust up over Density’. The stakes, as well as the buildings, are high because this […]
Tags:Planning·Social housing·Tax
The Political Economy of the Compact City: the Story from Perth
April 27th, 2016 · No Comments · Cities, Government, Housing supply, Planning reform, Transport
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 […]
Tags:Cities·high density·Planning·strategic planning·urban renewal
Housing Shortage? Empty houses, housing affordability and artificial scarcity
March 29th, 2016 · 1 Comment · Housing supply
Below is an extended version of an article published in the Sydney Morning Herald on Monday 28th March 2016. By Laurence Troy and Bill Randolph A major myth that permeates the recent debate on housing affordability is that the present level of housing supply is not meeting demand. Scarcity of housing, we are repeatedly […]
Tags:Affordable housing·Tax
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
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
When developers come knocking: why strata law shake-up won’t deliver cheaper housing
November 27th, 2015 · No Comments · Cities, Housing, Housing supply, Strata, Uncategorized
Originally published in The Conversation by Laurence Troy, Bill Randolph, Hazel Easthope and Laura Crommelin Recent changes to strata title legislation in NSW will remove the need for all owners to agree to sell or redevelop their apartment block as a whole. This means that some owners may now have their apartments sold against their […]
Tags:
It’s not all SINKS, DINKS and nuclear families
November 3rd, 2015 · No Comments · Cities, Housing supply, Wellbeing
By Edgar Liu & Hazel Easthope Reading the news headlines in Australia in the last handful of years, one could be forgiven for thinking that the only housing issue the general public is interested in is its price, particularly if and how first-time buyers can afford to enter the housing market, or when the housing […]
Tags:
Don’t fear boarding houses: they’re probably not what you think
October 26th, 2015 · No Comments · Housing, Housing supply
By Edgar Liu and Ryan van den Nouwelant. Originally published at The Conversation. A recent application for an eight-room boarding house in the leafy north Sydney suburb of Cromer attracted over 800 objections from residents and the school community. Proponents of the project, including governments, may be tempted to dismiss these residents as NIMBYs […]
Tags:Social housing
Tackling housing unaffordability: a 10-point national plan
June 24th, 2015 · No Comments · Affordability, Housing supply
Originally published at The Conversation, by Hal Pawson, UNSW Australia; Bill Randolph, UNSW Australia; Judith Yates, University of Sydney; Michael Darcy, University of Western Sydney; Nicole Gurran, University of Sydney; Peter Phibbs, University of Sydney, and Vivienne Milligan, UNSW Australia The widening cracks in Australia’s housing system can no longer be concealed. The extraordinary […]
Tags: