Convenor of @greatercanberra.org.au- Lawyer, general purpose nerd. Building better cities requires actually building. Views my own.
Howard Maclean
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And 3.2% in Melbourne, a city that is currently (and frankly has been for decades now), the leader in Australia for housing supply growth that has successfully kept housing costs under control.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Howard Maclean
Some day, our city needs to face up to the fact that we have a CBD with a height limit of about 50 metres, and this has and will continue to have ongoing significant environmental, economic and housing costs, pushign a lot of activity out to the Canberra's outer town centres.
Slowly, over the past few years, I've realised that the land use debate in Australia had an international generalisation problem. The economics of zoning and permitting reform on housing, energy and urbanism is global. The context - institutions, politics, history - is not.
12.3% annual housing inflation in Brisbane is absolutely brutal, 8.6% in Perth is barely any better. It's an acute reminder that the contours of the housing crisis aren't uniform - some jurisdictions are doing a lot better than others.
www.abs.gov.au/statistics/e...
That is to say, RL617 Delenda Est
If you're from Brisbane and you don't want to see all your friends move to Melbourne due to housing related cost of living differences, you should join Greater Brisbane.
greaterbrisbane.org
www.youtube.com/watch?v=24tC...
Today I've written a few thoughts about this problem - and why I've decided to write a book about land reform in the Australian context, and how we have our own unique strengths, opportunities and weaknesses compared to others.
thefoghorn.substack.com/p/why-boundl...
As you might have heard, I'm honoured to be one of the 4 ACT nominees for Young Australian of the Year! We have an Oscars style award ceremony announce who the ACT Young Australian of the year is (along with the other categories), which you can tune in from 6 pm.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=bnxV...
What does a proposal for a 55 storey tall tower in Woden Mean? It means that the height limit in Civic is far, far, far too low.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
And look guys, the correlation isn't hard here. You have 12.3% housing inflation in Brisbane, a city that has deliberately downzoned in the past decade has had a glacial response to the housing crisis...
www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06...
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Advocates say even they are surprised by Allan government’s embrace of higher density housing, but warn construction costs risk city becoming ‘victim of its success’
