Housing Waterfront CBD blocks are not the places to build affordable homes Brisbane just approved 2,200 riverfront homes with zero affordable units — but is the loudest criticism actually targeting the wrong problem?
Housing The banks’ role in housing and affordability Banks made $30 billion last year while renters struggle — but is the Senate inquiry targeting the right villain?
Housing Victoria Fast-Tracks Housing Approvals — But Only If You Build the Approved Way Victoria's new four-home fast-track sounds like planning reform — but the ten-day promise disappears the moment a project steps outside the code.
Housing Queensland rewrites planning rules to unlock housing - Is that ok? Queensland's planning rules haven't been seriously updated since 2017 — now the government wants to rewrite them. What's actually in the proposal, and what would it take to work?
Housing A 10% property crash would ripple far beyond real estate — here's where the pain hits Australia's households hold 55 cents of every dollar of wealth in property — so what actually happens when that number starts moving the wrong way?
Housing Let's hope the fed's $30m red tape scissors for WA will work Perth's planning system has 800 land-use definitions and 269 zones. Canberra is paying $30 million to fix it — but will the scissors cut or just add new loops?
Housing Unions blind to their own hypocrisy The ACTU's case against wage freezes rests on logic that should kill its own rent freeze proposal — so why isn't it applying that logic consistently?
Housing Old Idea: freeze rents. History says it’s a bad idea too. A rent freeze sounds like relief for renters under pressure — but the same policy has been tried before, and the people it hurts most are the ones it was supposed to help.
Housing The housing bubble is leaking fast Two structural supports for Australian property prices are cracking at once — and the biggest policy shock hasn't landed yet.
Housing Linking housing spend to domestic violence risks solutions to both Australia has two urgent crises and one funding announcement — but solving them together may mean solving neither one properly.
Housing Focus on new homes and forget the existing. 285 public housing homes sit empty in Canberra while 3,650 people wait — so why does fixing them fall to a volunteer with a paintbrush?
Housing Housing is less affordable now. Lets get a committee together! Australia's housing affordability inquiry is on its seventh hearing — while the construction pipeline is going backwards. When does analysis become organised delay?
Housing Housing code simplification might actually make more homes Queensland's planning rules haven't been updated since 2010 — and three-quarters of councils ended up with different standards for essentially the same building problem.
Housing Rent-freeze fallacy. Legislating prices doesn’t change costs Australia's renters are being squeezed by 3.6% rent rises inside broader inflation above target — but the Greens' emergency fix may leave the next renter worse off than the last.
Housing How subsidies meant to fix housing affordability are enriching developers instead Australia's affordable housing schemes promise supply — but the numbers behind one Sydney development reveal who is really collecting the windfall.
Housing Housing approvals slide as construction pipeline weakens Australia's apartment approvals just fell more than 10 per cent — and the consequences won't arrive until the exact years the housing accord is meant to deliver.
Housing Why Australia's housing cooling is only half the story Australia's housing market is cooling — but is that actually fixing anything, or just resetting the clock on the next price surge?
Housing With property prices falling stagnation could be baked in Australia's household wealth just grew 1.2% — but strip out property and every other asset was a net drag. What happens when the one engine stalls?
Housing What happens when you scrap mandatory car parks at new housing developments? Scrapping mandatory parking minimums could unlock 140,000 new homes — but the reform only works if governments are willing to do the politically painful part too.
Housing More-affordable homes, or more affordable homes? Australia's housing plan sounds good on paper—but can it actually deliver the homes first-time buyers need?
