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Essays & Reportage Peter Mares 29 September 2020 With governments unwilling to fix taxes or borrow, perhaps even Ronald Reagan has something to teach us
Essays & Reportage Peter Mares 4 August 2020 “Housing first” has emerged as the most effective way of tackling homelessness. But Finland, Denmark and Ireland show that government resolve is crucial too Books & Arts Peter Mares 25 May 2020 Books | Three housing researchers plot the way out of Australia’s affordability crisis National Affairs Lesley Russell 13 February 2020 The latest Closing the Gap report brings cause both for scepticism and for guarded optimism Essays & Reportage Leanne Hodyl 1 November 2019 High-rise housing has many benefits and quite a few shortcomings. The challenge is to shift the balance towards likeability
National Affairs Peter Mares 2 September 2019 The federal government made it clear at the National Housing Conference that significant new spending isn’t likely
National Affairs Peter Mares 7 June 2019 Part of Labor’s housing strategy could be adapted to lift affordability, and might just appeal to the government National Affairs Tim Colebatch 24 May 2019 The government must make clear that it doesn’t want any more booms National Affairs Tim Colebatch 14 May 2019 Election 2019 | Two parties, three promises, three problems Podcasts Peter Clarke, Wendy Stone and Peter Mares 30 April 2019 Election 2019 | The central goals of housing policy have been lost in debates about tax breaks for landlords
National Affairs Carmela Chivers 20 March 2019 We’re doing better than many comparable countries, but that’s not enough
Books & Arts Brendan Coates 11 February 2019 Books | A blind spot among economists has helped price housing out of reach National Affairs Peter Mares 18 September 2018 Carolyn rented, Peter purchased, and then the market (and bad government policy) took over National Affairs Peter Mares 7 September 2018 Finland’s Housing First strategy has all but eradicated homelessness. Could the same approach work in Australia?   National Affairs Tim Colebatch 23 February 2018 The International Monetary Fund gets some things right and some things wrong — but you wouldn’t necessarily know which from the coverage it’s had
National Affairs Brendan Coates & Trent Wiltshire 22 February 2018 Flawed research has fuelled a mistaken view of the best way to assist less well-off households
Essays & Reportage Peter Mares 22 January 2018 Youth homelessness is more than a question of affordable accommodation. A new project shows how music can play an unexpected role National Affairs Michael Dillon 18 January 2018 The federal government’s bargaining position will worsen the shortage of homes in remote communities National Affairs Brendan Coates 12 January 2018 Treasury’s advice on negative gearing shows why tax reforms alone won’t solve the housing affordability crisis National Affairs Peter Mares 6 December 2017 Canada is showing the way, but the funds need to start flowing — and that means biting the bullet on tax
National Affairs Peter Mares 4 December 2017 A shift to a property tax will make the housing market fairer and more efficient, and researchers have come up with a practical way to do it
National Affairs Peter Mares 30 November 2017 Projects in Australia and Britain are showing how social housing can be more nimble and responsive Essays & Reportage Bronwyn Adcock 17 August 2017 Battle lines are drawn in Nowra over the complex causes of homelessness National Affairs Tim Colebatch 5 July 2017 Dig a little deeper, and the figures tell us unexpected things about more than one Australia National Affairs Peter Mares 3 July 2017 Malcolm Turnbull’s efforts to bring the federal government back into urban policy will be put to the test in Western Sydney
National Affairs Brendan Coates, John Daley & Trent Wiltshire 29 May 2017 It’s not so much the banks’ balance sheets we should be worried about, it’s the economy-wide impact of much larger household debts
National Affairs Brendan Coates & John Daley 10 May 2017 The budget highlights the government’s preference for cosmetic rather than consequential changes in housing policy National Affairs Brendan Coates, John Daley & Trent Wiltshire 1 May 2017 Governments are favouring the easy but ineffectual options for reform National Affairs Brendan Coates, John Daley & Trent Wiltshire 27 April 2017 In the first of two articles, the Grattan Institute describes the profound effects of housing costs across the economy. National Affairs Lesley Russell 21 March 2017 A promising federal government homelessness strategy dissipated for lack of funding and political will