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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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Prosper’s 2022 Federal Election scorecard
The 2022 Federal Election: as underwhelming as a stale slice of Wonder WhiteTM encasing a slippery, budget snag. We at Prosper could never walk past a democracy sausage. No matter how greasy and cold. With the Lib/Lab reducing their respective policy platforms to...
Progress Magazine #1132 – On a Win
The latest edition of Progress Magazine is available now. Peruse past editions here. We start this edition with key speeches from Hansard at the passage of Victoria’s landmark Windfall Gains Tax legislation. You can discern the distinctly Georgist principles invoked...
Friendly Jordies on Housing Woes
Cross-posted from Friendly Jordies The Facts blog, which provides the policy speak alternative to his cunning video take on Australia's affordability woes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjPpAjQzWsM As reported by Greg Jericho for The Guardian, Australian property...