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Co-operatives: an answer to affordable housing?

With increasing pressure on policymakers to find creative solutions to the housing affordability crisis, more consideration should be given to co-operatives. ANU student Farz Edraki is glad he’s part of one.

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Why the construction industry will struggle in 2013

House prices will go higher (though not by much) but the construction industry faces another tough year. Government’s need to find the money to invest in infrastructure to boost the sector.

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Crikey Blogs | JOURNALISM|

On the subject of housing, is Melbourne media xenophobic?

Coverage of housing issues in The Age and on ABC 774 suggest the Melbourne media aren’t completely comfortable with foreigners — particularly Asian ones, writes Alan Davies.

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Census reveals consequences of a national housing myopia

The consequences of years of policy drift on housing is evident in the census but don’t expect anything to change.

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Keane’s fantasy budget (and how to pay for it)

Removing middle class welfare and tax reform would deliver a health surplus while addressing some key economic problems.

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What would a real economic reform budget look like?

What would a hardcore economic reform budget look like, stripped of political self-interest? It depends on what your economic priorities are.

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How NSW and Victoria billed the rest of us for public housing

NSW and Victoria have slashed their level of public housing investment to take advantage of the GFC stimulus packages.

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Ghosts of COAG — the counter-terrorism review that vanished

A long-promised COAG review of our counter-terrorism laws has “drifted” — right out of sight.

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Waiting for the first challenge story of autumn

Surely an appearance cannot be long away. I was surprised that last week’s Newspoll did not bring it forth. Absolutely stunned that today’s Nielsen failed to flush it out. But surely, surely it cannot be long.

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A (big, blue) sign of the times for NT Intervention

On Tuesday night the Darwin City Council considered a letter from Dave Chalmers, state manager of the federal Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs’ NT state office, with the seemingly innocuous subject of “highway and community signs”.

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Crikey Blogs | ECONOMY|

Why we need healthy housing policy

Housing stress is in the headlines as a result of a new report from The National Housing Supply Council. It coincides with further new research about the need to link health and housing policy, writes Caroline Chen.

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Housing report shines light on undersupply crisis in NSW

The National Housing Supply Council has produced extensive data on the nature of our housing undersupply. And the big problem is in NSW.

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Another day, another set of disastrous building figures

Housing commencements are now in freefall, with long-term consequences for our housing supply.

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As RBA mulls interest rates, housing decline is accelerating

Another rate rise might accelerate a decline in construction activity that shows no sign of slowing down.

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Participation and mobility dominate Tax Forum paper

Wayne Swan has released the government discussion paper for its Tax Forum in October.

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Regurgitating rubbish facts on carbon price effects

It isn’t just dodgy industry claims about the carbon price that circulate through the media.

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Hockey’s budget reply fails to grease the gallery wheels

Yesterday Joe Hockey made electoral bribery a key component of the Coalition’s response to the mining boom. Eeconomic debate in Australia reached its lowest point in 30 years yesterday when he addressed the Press Club.

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Our dangerous debt affair

Is our economic future at risk as a result of the huge debts we’ve accumulated to indulge our love affair with housing?

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New York Times | ECONOMY|

No longer safe as houses

The US housing market is recovering post-GFC, but property will never be the guaranteed money maker it once was, warns experts.

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Labor’s population
obsession

While Labor desperately appeals to the redneck vote on population, it is heading in the right direction on housing infrastructure because there’s a chance it might actually produce quality policy.

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The Big Bank recalcitrance behind lower housing investment forecasts

Yesterday’s forecasts from Treasury spelt bad news for housing investment. The peak in housing approvals last year doesn’t appear to be translating into bricks and mortar.

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Residential housing market losing its froth

While the federal government does its best to quell the booming mining sector, the other boom area, residential housing, appears to be finally losing its froth.

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NSW Budget shock

NSW has long been the epicentre of Australia’s growing crisis of housing undersupply. Belatedly, the NSW Government has produced some sensible policies to redirected demand and stimulate supply.

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The not-so-good news: housing costs continue to rise

The first of the crude “median” house price data has started coming through and it is sprightly to say the least, according to Christopher Joye. But it’s not necessarily great news for policy makers.

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Rentals: what the (land)lord giveth, the (land)lord taketh away

While the real estate industry and its dependents continue to trump residential property as an investment, many Australians are becoming increasingly frustrated with a growing lack of affordability of capital city housing.

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