Housing

Nov
14

Don’t blame immigrants for the housing mess

Whether immigrants fuel inflation is a complicated question, in part because there’s no single, uniform “immigrant”. Immigrants can be
5 min read
Nov
10

Inviting criminality

When you create a system that makes it costly to do things ‘by the book’ – common examples are drugs, guns
2 min read
Nov
08

Good news from Denmark

Denmark has a housing problem. Not Denmark the country, but Denmark Western Australia – population 2,375 – which happens to be
3 min read
Oct
27

Inflation's winners and losers

Who has fared the worst from the recent bout of inflation and ongoing cost of living crisis? It’s not
2 min read
Oct
18

Bring on the granny flats

Australia has a housing problem: we simply haven’t built enough of them to accommodate our growing population, which the
3 min read
Oct
13

Numbers tell the story

According to this tweet (usual caveats apply), a new Deutsche Bank report implied that Australia’s housing crisis is about
2 min read
Aug
19

The cooler heads prevailed

National Cabinet – where Australia’s States and federal government get together to try to agree on national policy – reached an
3 min read