by Karl Fitzgerald | Jul 25, 2023 | Progress Magazine
My belief is that Community Land Trusts (CLTs) can demonstrate the benefits of recycling land rents for the common good. This will support the larger Georgist agenda with a micro version of the macro vision. It’s been 12 months since we started Grounded...
by Karl Fitzgerald | Aug 2, 2022 | Commentary
Cross-posted from The Age’s Cara Waters. More regulation of property developers is needed to prevent them deliberately releasing land slowly to drive up prices for aspiring home owners and maximise their own profits, according to independent think tank Prosper...
by Karl Fitzgerald | Jul 29, 2022 | Commentary
Op-ed Cross-posted from The Age, Karl Fitzgerald The development industry has told us for many years that if the government would just pick up the pace of planning approvals, the supply they could bring to market would bring house prices down. In submissions to...
by Karl Fitzgerald | Jul 28, 2022 | Commentary
Our Staged Releases report release presentation. See the full slideshow in your own...
by Karl Fitzgerald | Jul 28, 2022 | Commentary
Cross-posted from The Age, by Cara Waters The state government’s push to reduce the cost of housing by releasing swaths of land on Melbourne’s fringe is being undermined by big developers, which new economic analysis suggests are banking the land then releasing it...