Governments need to follow through on what we know will work, not give in to the housing policy din.
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Grattan Institute calculations suggest that the 200,000 homes the state and territory leaders have agreed to build over five years will result in billions in savings for renters.
Cities are defined as much by their buildings as what people do in between them. Designing them comes with great responsibility.
Nigeria’s built environment should ideally be part of a broader, integrated approach to crime prevention and community policing.
Liverpool is the first city in England to investigate, via a land commission, how urban property can best serve everyone.
Chinese authorities have an intriguing, if troubling, option in handling the Evergrande crisis.
Grocon as a construction business might be on its last legs, but Grocon as a property development and landlord business should be fine.
Rezoning enormously increases the value of properties. Yet the developers who benefit don’t want to pay, in the name of “certainty”.
Building defects in apartment blocks are far from unusual. We need to identify the systemic flaws contributing to them.
This is how the working-class traders of Chrisp Street Market stood up to property developers – and won.
In a landmark court decision, graffiti has been ruled to be proper art worthy of recognition and protection.
Some kampung in Jakarta have become hubs from participatory design and sustainable urban planning.
The way land titles are issued, bought and sold will soon be very different, thanks to privatisation and technology.
The Chinese government is curtailing outbound investment. While this will affect the Australian property industry, the rest of the economy should be unaffected.
Top contributors
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Program Director, Economic Policy, Grattan Institute
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Senior Lecturer in City Planning, UNSW Sydney
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Adjunct professor of architecture, University of Adelaide
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Professor of Economics, UNSW Sydney
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Reader in Intellectual Property Law, City, University of London
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Professor in Human Geography, Royal Holloway University of London
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Professor, City Futures Research Centre, Faculty of the Built Environment, UNSW Sydney
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Lecturer in Law, Monash University
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Research Fellow - Henry Halloran Trust, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of Geospatial Engineering, UNSW Sydney
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Scientia Associate Professor, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Geographic Information Science and Director of the Conrad Blucher Institute for Surveying Sciences, Texas A&M University
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Associate professor of Communications, Concordia University
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Associate researcher, Grattan Institute
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Senior Research Fellow, University of Sheffield
