Planning deregulation, especially rezoning, has been repeatedly touted as a key policy solution to Australia’s eye watering house prices. The story goes that prices remain high because the supply of new dwellings in accessible, desirable locations has not kept pace...
by Jehan Azad & Uri Bram Wired Magazine (published May 4, 2023). Reprinted with permission. “There's no such thing as a good landlord” is a rallying cry of angry renters. In the future, it might be conventional morality that it’s simply wrong to own land. In our...
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 Community Land...
An Earth Rights Manifesto from Alanna Hartzok, Earth Rights Visionary and United Nations NGO Representative for the International Union for Land Value Taxation. His Majesty King Charles III Buckingham Palace London SW1A 1AA Your Majesty, I write to you as your...
by Brendan Coates Economic Policy Program Director, Grattan Institute This is an edited version. Full transcript availble from the Grattan intstitute. Upstream from the Great Australian Nightmare of worsening housing affordability – and all the downstream consequences...
A summary of recent research Speculation: it’s a Georgist obsession shared by few others. Landbanking, flipping, vacancy, delayed development, staged releases – how does any of this matter? Speculative behaviour tells of the market at work, allocating capital and...
Progress Magazine Editorial Celebrating our 1130th edition! Dear readers, I want you to look at the back page graph to remember why this is such an important story. It quickly paints a picture that Australian land prices are out of control. The 1999 halving of the...
The 1128th edition of Progress Magazine is now available online. Here is the editorial. Dear supporters, At the 2019 Prosper AGM, members passed the motion to remove section 17 from the constitution requiring the production of four editions of Progress per year. The...
This article is taken from the long-running series published in Progress Journal, Geoists in History by Karl William David Ricardo (1772-1823) “The interest of the landlord is always opposed to the interests of every other class in the community.” The father of...
Bryan Kavanagh's new report on the state of the real estate cycle, in light of the latest Kavanagh-Putland Index. The Economy Made Easy from Prosper Australia Background - See the latest edition of Progress where Bryan includes his findings in 'The Truth About High...