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Does Urban Growth compete with farmlands?
Did you know that room enough for 100,000 people (all of SA is only 1.6 million) would only need 0.02% of agricultural land used in SA?
continually rising house prices and society
"I'm optimistic people are now beginning to recognise that continually rising house prices aren't necessarily a good thing for society as a whole, and that we're starting to have some serious conversations about doing something on the supply side of the housing industry, rather than simply pumping up the demand through increased cash grants."
Former ANZ chief economist Saul Eslake at an affordable housing forum at Bond University on the Gold Coast
Article from Sydney Morning Herald
The Australian: States push up housing costs
An article in the Australian raised the question :
"THE one thing Australia is not short of is land - so why is housing in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide so expensive?"
AdelaideNow: Our Aussie dream Crisis
An article that appeared on 21 Jan in AdelaideNow (The Advertiser) stated:
"THE rising median house price has outstripped wage increases in the past decade, prompting calls for an urgent reform of the state's housing policies and taxes."
"Figures presented in the policy show the median house price has risen 219 per cent in the past 10 years from $122,300 in 2000 to $390,125 in 2009,.."
The HIA called for a time limit for land rezoning among other things.
I note that I have been making the link between land zoning and unaffordable housing since 2006
I am also the only candidate for the SA Upper House in 2010 calling for the removal of the Urban Boundary and the problems it causes to young families.