by Karl Fitzgerald | May 29, 2008 | Articles
With the growing pressure to find affordable accommodation and our excitement at the Canberra Land rent proposal, we thought it high time we showed you a growing trend through the northern hemisphere – Community Land Trusts by Prosper Tasmania’s Leo Foley...
by Karl Fitzgerald | May 27, 2008 | Commentary, Multimedia
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by Karl Fitzgerald | May 26, 2008 | Commentary
Today’s Sydney Morning Herald article on Empty Dwellings in a City Desperate for Places to Live has exposed the raft of vacancies prevalent when land banking trumps housing affordability. It quotes how 122,211 sites were vacant in the 2006 census, reminding us...
by Karl Fitzgerald | May 23, 2008 | Uncategorized
Our Policy Position on the hotch potch of property taxes is now online. With affordability reaching epic proportions, it is time governments of all levels looked into the eyes of the problem – inaccurate council rates and land taxes. With council rates going out...
by Karl Fitzgerald | May 19, 2008 | Letters to the Editor
The day after the 2008 Federal Budget, Gavin Putland (our Research Officer) sent three letters to newspapers. This one was sent to THE AGE, which exercised its editorial discretion not to publish: Cop-out On Inflation And Rents If a Budget is to be anti-inflationary,...