The Housing Elephant In The Room – And What To Do About it…

Following on from ‘Housing: Taming the Elephant in the Economy’ report published last week, by The City Futures team, they have now released the research report that provided part of the basis for that publication.

The new paper ‘Housing and the Economy: Interrogating Australian Experts’ Views’ its an analysis of in-depth interviews with a selected group of 20 respondents from the 87 who kindly participated in last year’s online survey.

This offers a comprehensive grounding in contemporary policy settings of the Australian public policy housing system to promotes in-depth appreciation of contemporary debates including those focused on housing affordability and housing tax reform and to describe the policies and institutions that have shaped Australia’s housing system

Professor Duncan MacLennan from the University of Glasgow led the economic strand of the research. He is an applied economist with interests in cities, neighbourhoods, infrastructure and housing. He is currently Professor of Public Policy at the University of Glasgow, Professor of Strategic Urban Management and Finance at the University of St Andrews and a Professorial Research Fellow in Urban Economics at the University of New South Wales, Sydney.

His current research is concerned with economic drivers and consequences of metropolitan investment strategies for infrastructure and housing and of the fiscal and spending autonomies in sub-national levels of government.

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Property Signs: 29th June 2021

The latest edition of our finance and property news digest with a distinctively Australian flavour.

In today’s show we look at the new pressures on renters, how the banks have offered to help borrowers in the current lock down, and the fall out from the inter-generational report. Plus, the latest Government rorts and Facebook’s surge.

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More Silly Season Stupidity: Market Review 26th June 2021

The latest edition of our finance and property news digest with a distinctively Australian flavour.

CONTENTS

0:00 Start
0:18 Introduction
1:43 FED Stress Test
3:30 US Markets
4:50 Infrastructure Bill
6:45 Core PCE
7:40 Jobs Claims
8:15 Bonds
9:35 Europe and UK
12:20 Asia
13:00 Inflation – Containers, Oil, Lumber
15:05 Australian Market
17:08 Gold
19:15 Dogecoin
22:45 Shiba Inu
26:00 Conclusion

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The latest edition of our finance and property news digest with a distinctively Australian flavour.

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The People’s Senate Blocks The Banks!

Has the Senate found a spine when in comes to the behaviour of our Big Banks? Is responsible lending dead and is an Australia Post bank a possibility?

Robbie Barwick from the Citizens Party joins me to discuss the latest important developments, and how you can help.

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Poor Australians fooled by Parliament’s Trickery

Following from our last show about the age pension and the fact that Australians cannot assume some inherent right or entitlement to it, some of the IOTP audience attempted to push back by harking back to a policy from the 1940s called the National Welfare Fund.

We did not discuss the National Welfare Fund in the previous show, but it is worth exploring because some Australians are of the view that money for the age pension and other social security payments from the National Welfare Fund and not consolidated revenue.

But now, Economist John Adams and Analyst Martin North seeks to clear up the confusion by explaining what was the National Welfare Fund and what happened to it. Go to the Walk The World Universe at https://walktheworld.com.au/

The First Time Home Buyers Nightmare! With Tarric Brooker

My latest discussion with Journalist Tarric Brooker (@AvidCommentator on Twitter) starts with a look at the fate of First Time Buyers, and explores some of the current data to examine the future economic trends – and when the election might arrive.

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An Australian Post Victory, And Beyond: With Robbie Barwick

We discuss the Senate report recently released as their investigation into the “Watch-gate” affair concludes. Robbie Barwick from the Australian Citizens Party and I highlight the key findings, and the broader issues raised – a victory for democracy….

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