My belief is that Community Land Trusts (CLTs) can demonstrate the benefits of recycling land rents for the common good. This will support the larger Georgist agenda with a micro version of the macro vision. It’s been 12 months since…
Cross-posted from The Age’s Cara Waters. More regulation of property developers is needed to prevent them deliberately releasing land slowly to drive up prices for aspiring home owners and maximise their own profits, according to independent think tank Prosper Australia.…
Op-ed Cross-posted from The Age, Karl Fitzgerald The development industry has told us for many years that if the government would just pick up the pace of planning approvals, the supply they could bring to market would bring house prices…
Our Staged Releases report release presentation. See the full slideshow in your own time:
Cross-posted from The Age, by Cara Waters The state government’s push to reduce the cost of housing by releasing swaths of land on Melbourne’s fringe is being undermined by big developers, which new economic analysis suggests are banking the land…
New report reveals nine Master Plan Communities costing $5.9 billion in higher housing costs A new report entitled Staged Releases: Peering behind the land supply curtain from Prosper Australia has revealed the profits developers enjoy through the strategic releasing of…
A great new video on Henry George’s influence, his timeless message.
Cross posted from Robert Harley at the AFR Karl Fitzgerald, the advocacy director at Prosper Australia, is a strong believer in the benefits of replacing property stamp duty with a broad-based land tax. But he has a warning for first-home…
Sent 21/6/22 Today’s announcement by Premier Perrottet that first home buyers could opt into a land tax was a baby step in the right direction of a broader land tax base. “NSW landholders benefitted to the tune of $705 billion…
The latest edition of Progress Magazine is available now. Peruse past editions here. We start this edition with key speeches from Hansard at the passage of Victoria’s landmark Windfall Gains Tax legislation. You can discern the distinctly Georgist principles invoked…