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Pricing Development Rights: A game changer for housing affordability
By Tim Helm & Henry Williams
Governments across Australia are effectively giving away $11 billion a year to wealthy landowners by failing to put a fair price on development rights.
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The Land Cycle
By Catherine Cashmore
The Land Cycle explores the history of the 18-year land cycle and its implications for policy development. Read the paper.
Rent-Controlled Resources: Why are we under-charging Australia's mining tenants?
This report examines Australia’s resource royalties and the gains to be made by moving to a more flexible royalty model with variable rates
Speculative Vacancies 2025 data update
Our latest Speculative Vacancies data update reveals the extent of unoccupied housing in Melbourne.
Buying better income taxes with land taxes
Tax reform is more than changing income tax rates, it’s about shifting taxes off income altogether. This report explores one of the most recommended reforms.
Staged Releases: Peering Behind the Land Supply Curtain
In this report we ask whether the private choices of property owners to supply new housing according to market conditions works against the stated public policy outcome of supply-driven affordability through rezoning.
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Workers and businesses need to get on the same page: it’s time to tax super-profits
The wage share of our collective income is at historical lows while the profits share is on the rise. Why is this? There has been some dispute over what impact wages have on inflation (practically none), and if profits have driven inflation. Yet the picture is clearly...
ACCC, Auditor Generals MIA re Land Banking
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...
Forget Red or Green Tape, Developers Squeeze Housing Supply with Gold Tape
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...