Submission to the People’s Commission into the Australian Housing Crisis

Abstract

Australian housing markets and government housing policies are issue about which I’ve written and spoken at considerable length for more than forty years. Rather than recapitulate that, I’ve provided at Attachments 1 and 2, respectively, to this submission, copies of an essay published by the Pearls and Irritations blog in May 2017, and a submission I made to the Senate Economics References Committee’s Inquiry into Affordable Housing in December 2013.

What follows hereafter (before the two Attachments) is an update of some of the data set out and views expressed in those two pieces of work.