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From the archive Buyer’s luck Peter Mares 18 September 2018 Peter purchased, Carolyn rented, and then the market (and bad policies) took over National affairs “You don’t see people sleeping on the streets” Peter Mares 7 September 2018 Finland’s Housing First strategy has all but eradicated homelessness. Could the same approach work in Australia?   National affairs Good advice, and puzzling blind spots, in the IMF’s latest report on Australia 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 The conventional wisdom is wrong: building more housing does help low-income earners 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 Rush to judgement Bronwyn Adcock 17 August 2017 Battle lines are drawn in Nowra over the complex causes of homelessness National affairs One census, three stories Tim Colebatch 5 July 2017 Dig a little deeper, and the figures tell us unexpected things about more than one Australia National affairs Dealing cities in 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 What comes after the housing boom? 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 The housing affordability trap Saul Eslake 12 May 2016 Falling home ownership rates are bad for households and bad for the economy, writes Saul Eslake. Governments are starting to respond, but much more can be done National affairs A low-cost way to derail the housing debate John Daley and Danielle Wood 3 March 2016 A new report on negative gearing rests on deeply flawed assumptions, write John Daley and Danielle Wood. But that hasn’t stopped the government from using… National affairs Truth and negativity in the negative gearing debate Tim Colebatch 25 February 2016 It’s not too late for Malcolm Turnbull to regain some of the ground he’s lost on tax, says Tim Colebatch. Labor’s plan shows why he can’t afford… National affairs The new urban divide, and how to deal with it Jane-Frances Kelly & Paul Donegan 29 September 2015 State and local governments need to break down the emerging division between job-rich and job-poor suburbs in Australia’s major cities, write Jane-Frances Kelly and…