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Ignore all the ways housing is supplied and you will always find a shortage
A new paper by Schuyler Louie, John Mondragon, Rami Najjar, and Johannes Wieland (LMNW for short) makes a point I have made many times before—housing is not a one-dimensional product where extra demand translates into extra quantity of homo...
FET #79: Welfare for the well-off costs Australians over $20 billion a year! Henry Williams explains how to fix it
Henry Williams is the Director of Policy at a new Melbourne-based think tank called Policy Institute Australia. They have done detailed analysis of how to tweak Australia’s welfare system to provide for those in need, rather than giving awa...
Explainer: How the Visa System Affects Net Overseas Migration (NOM)
A lesson from the past few weeks of public debate in Australia is that even those who are most passionate about immigration don’t seem to understand how the design of the visa system affects Net Overseas Migration (NOM).
This Explainer is...
Sydney and Melbourne workshops: Land and Housing Economics for Professionals
This week, an announcement.
After the successful Ground Rules: Land and Housing Economics for Professionals workshop in Brisbane in June, I have opened up two more workshop events in Sydney and Melbourne in November 2026.
The workshop is...
What is landbanking and why does it happen?
This is Part 4 of a four-part series coming to FET that I hope will become a reference point for understanding key concepts related to housing production.
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