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Rebecca Conroy

We Don't Need More Houses | newmatilda.com - 1 views

  • Hometrack's Brendan Darcy recently released analysis claiming that the ABS data significantly under-estimated the housing supply in Australia, because it only counts "occupied dwellings". But on census night in 2006, the ABS reported 830,000 unoccupied dwellings. "We estimate there are at least 10 million dwellings in Australia compared with ABS data showing occupied dwellings of 8.3 million. The extra one to two million dwellings consist of a mixture of housing awaiting sale or development, vacant dwellings, second homes, and abandoned homes," Darcy concluded.
  • Australia has one of the most skewed property taxation regimes in the industrialised world, rewarding investors and owner-occupiers at the expense of renters and those looking to buy a house. The Capital Gains Tax exemption for the family home costs taxpayers $30 billion a year, disproportionately advantaging those of us who own multi-million dollar homes.
  • the number of landlords reporting profits grew by 36,000, while those reporting losses grew by 594,000.
Rebecca Conroy

Expanded Spatial Practices, Visual Art and Design Research Group (VADRG), University of... - 1 views

  • 'Site-writing' examines how writing art criticism can be understood as a form of situated practice where the writing responds to those site suggested by the artwork: those that are there as well as here, those that exist in the memories and imaginations of the artist and critic as well as in the tangible present, those connected to the sites of the work's production as well as reception.This workshop asks you to remake one site in relation to another, specifically to explore the potential of writing as a way of making relations between sites. Writing here includes not only as script but also as text, which might include visual images, and/or words as images, and also words as they are spoken and performed.
Rebecca Conroy

Real estate media: property journalism standards, ethics poor | Crikey - 0 views

  • Which brings me to an annual event which illustrates the failings of real estate journalism more than any other situation: the publication of a piece of self-serving propaganda called the Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey.
  • This document is political posturing by vested interests and should never be featured by any media outlet in Australia. It is published by a lobby group that campaigns for the end of government regulations that restrict the activities of land developers. The group argues that regulation causes prices to rise and makes homes unaffordable. It has created a political document masquerading as research to support their views.
Rebecca Conroy

Photo Gallery - Lotus Belle Australia - 0 views

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    GLAMPING. Love it!
jennifermae

Protecting Sydney's Peri-Urban Agriculture: Moving beyond a Housing/Farming Dichotomy - 0 views

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    Interesting research out of ANU on strategies for protecting the existing "local food" regions in Australia.
jennifermae

Boom threatens the great Australian dream of a home - 0 views

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    more boom and bust stuff from SMH - N.B. Senate Enquiry into affordable housing: "But housing affordability isn't just a problem for middle-class Australia. Concern about a lack of affordable housing has prompted a Senate inquiry - due to report in June - on the regimes of incentives, planning and funding that currently affect the supply of affordable housing for the country's most vulnerable and less well-off."
jennifermae

Housing bubble fears: property prices could fall 10 to 20 per cent - 1 views

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    The Economy Widening gap: Housing prices have outpaced wage growth over the past 12 months. Photo: Fiona Morris The $4 trillion Australian housing market is now overvalued by at least 10 per cent. Every day, valuations get more stretched. Indeed, Australia is just months away from having the most expensive residential property market in history.
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