Presentation to the Planning Institute of Australia's Victorian Conference, October 13, 2023 Today I want to take you on a rapid intellectual journey, a therapeutic crash-course, to convince you all to stop worrying about housing affordability – and instead, to learn...
Housing supply is often touted as the one and only solution to unaffordable housing. It is a favourite topic of both the development industry and many government inquiries (including the current Inquiry Into Housing Affordability and Supply).
Homebuyers might be wary of taxing rezoning windfalls, because they worry it will increase the sticker price of housing. The property industry says that taxing rezoning windfalls will increase the cost of housing because the tax will be passed on. They also say that...
According to the lovely Dr. Elizabeth Taylor over at RMIT, parking in Melbourne's city centre now occupies the equivalent of 225 MCGs. The main reason for this bounty: minimum car parking requirements in the planning scheme. These requirements compel developers to...
As published in The Age and online, highlighting today's seminar. by Clay Lucas The rezoning of land by state governments across Australia is so open to routine corruption and manipulation by a "mates network" among both major political parties that a cooling off...
Clean Money in A Dirty System - a seminar with Cameron Murray Wednesday, 24 June, 12.30 - 1.30pm RMIT City Campus, Swanston Street Building 80, Level 05, Room 012 Presenter: Cameron Murray RSVP (attendance is free) Prosper has teamed up with RMIT University's Centre...
Read about this landmark methodology by Cameron Murray and Paul Fritjers, modelling game theory from thousands of cosy relationships to determine the likelihood of beneficial re-zoning outcomes. Cameron was interviewed on the Renegade Economists last week. Stay tuned...