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Do Property Investors Really Cause Australia’s Housing Crisis? A familiar claim has resurfaced in Australia’s housing debate: that property investors, and the tax settings that support them, are the primary cause of the housing affordability and homelessness crisis.  It’s a powerful narrative. It’s also an incomplete one. Our research, conducted for an upcoming market report…

Another RBA rate rise, another round of noise. This week there were rumours about English cricket fans “spending too much” during the Ashes. Last month it was café breakfasts. Next week it’ll be something else entirely. You can play financial roulette with gossip… or you can step back and look at the system underneath it…

Australia’s housing crisis is often discussed as a government problem. But the reality is more nuanced and more actionable. The decisions made in planning offices shape outcomes in communities. The decisions made by investors determine what actually gets built. That’s why the real choice in front of us isn’t abstract: strategic density, or tent city….