Alan Moran

Director of the Deregulation Unit, Institute of Public Affairs, Melbourne, Australia, and author of The Tragedy of Planning (2006)

The Tragedy of Planning - Losing the Great Australian Dream(2006) 2.21MB

Website: www.ipa.org.au

e-mail:

16.00 to 17.30 on Saturday 19 May 2007

Housing Affordability and its Socio-Economic Consequences: Lessons from Downunder

Summary

• House Price Trends in Australia
• Demand, Supply, Costs and Prices
• Wider Macro-Economic Effects
• Housing and real levels of savings
• Aggregate levels of wealth corrected for land inflation
• Effects on Australian savings and investment

Housing Affordability and its Socio-Economic Consequences: Lessons from Downunder

More to follow shortly...

What priorities do we want reflected in land use planning?

Has the notion of a distinct town and country become unsustainable?

Can planners reconcile government policies with where and how people actually want to live?

Is it justified to describe policies based on constraining building activity as "planning"?

Introduction

This website is maintained by abley@audacity.org. All material is Copyright © 2000 - 2007 Audacity Limited where not copyright of the originator.