Data reveals key to fixing housing affordability crisis — AAP
Peter Tulip, chief economist at the Centre for Independent Studies, said the relationship between supply and pricing was also evident in housing markets in the US and New Zealand.
By relaxing zoning regulations and greatly increasing the amount of medium density allowed to be built in Auckland, researchers estimated housing stock increased by four per cent, reducing rents by 28 per cent relative to other comparable cities in New Zealand.
“This has very important policy implications, which is that if we increase housing supply, housing will become more affordable,” Dr Tulip told AAP.
Dr Tulip said the NSW and Victorian governments led the way in liberalising zoning rules to increase supply, but it would still be months before their reforms, put in place one-to-two years ago, began to bear fruit.
Australia’s 5 Percent Deposit Scheme Surpasses 300,000 Buyers: Is It Inflating the Crisis It Claims to Solve? — Epoch Times
Peter Tulip, Chief Economist at the Centre for Independent Studies, told The Epoch Times that while the policy solves the immediate hurdle of the deposit, it creates “serious unintended consequences.”
“I think the 5 percent deposit scheme addresses an important problem,” he told The Epoch Times.
“Deposit requirements are too high and lenders’ mortgage insurance is too expensive.”
“Prices for entry-level homes are increasing noticeably faster than the rest of the market. While the policy benefits the lucky recipients, it is worsening affordability for others.”
Tulip argued that by encouraging low-deposit borrowing, the government encourages risky buying and borrowing and makes housing bubbles more likely.
“If prices fall, the taxpayer is on the hook. A better policy would be to relax zoning regulations that restrict supply and push up prices,” he said.
All that we know to be correct: The fightback against the Science of Math — Filling the Pail
And these myths (about mathematics teaching) align with those listed in a 2022 paper by Sarah Powell, Elizabeth Hughes and Corey Peltier that was published by Australia’s Centre for Independent Studies and that the Science of Math website repeatedly cites. Powell, Hughes and Peltier are all ‘founding advocates’ of the Science of Math website and this probably explains the overlap.
Raymond and Gunter therefore proceed with an attempted critique of the Powell et al. paper. Interestingly, they do this by claiming a number of the myths identified by Powell et al. are straw men. In other words, nobody actually believes that conceptual understanding must precede procedural understanding, that teaching algorithms is harmful or that executive function training is important. This is startling, given that the YouCubed email effectively endorsed these positions as ones ‘that we know to be correct’.
Parnell McGuinness appeared on Sky News Newsday