Community Land Trusts explained

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...

Podcast the Renegade Economists

Listen to the world’s only geonomics radio show by subscribing to our podcast. Follow these 3 easy steps to have your computer automatically download each week’s show: copy this link: http://3cr.org.au/podcast/podcast.php?cat=RenegadeEconomists go to your...

Empty Dwellings During Housing Crisis?

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...

Reforming Property Taxes

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...