Housing: The Great Australian Dream Project
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The Great Australian Dream Project
The Great Australian Dream project looks at the impact of regulatory policy on housing affordability, home ownership and housing production. The project aims to promote policies to increase the accessibility and reduce the costs of home ownership for Australians. In particular, the Institute of Public Affairs looks at the relationship between land supply restrictions and how those restrictions artifically inflate the price of house and land. This relationship is examined in the 2006 book The Tragedy of Planning: Losing the Great Australian Dream.
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The Aussie dream one of the most expensive
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Access to land the root of soaring house prices
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Government red tape puts us in house bind
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Houston, we have a housing problem
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Surely the election can afford debate on housing
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Let society shape itself
It's hard not to be cynical. Especially when a developer lobby claims giving the government power to force people to sell their homes - to...
It's time misguided land starvation was stopped
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Price of a new house could be so much cheaper
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Easier zoning would deflate home prices
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