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Man Bear Pig (lemmy.world)

"Zoning and planning regulations that limit the supply of new housing increase the price of housing. For instance, Kendall and Tulip (2018) estimate the impact of zoning on housing prices and find that “as of 2016, zoning raised detached house prices 73 per cent above marginal costs in Sydney, 69 per cent in Melbourne, 42 per cent in Brisbane and 54 per cent in Perth”

From

https://crawford.anu.edu.au/sites/default/files/2025-04/Complete%20WP%20Varela%20Breunig%20Smith_2025%20compressed.pdf

An open secret. So, if we progressively change zoning, then a large part of the synthetic component evaporates? Apartments in NSW are a joke with over 53% needing remediation. So the planning laws don't work to create good housing. What are they really for?

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Probably right about the first option, but i feel like more progress has been made with older generations recognising its a particular problem.

I'm interested to find out what Japanese people think of the way their housing system was transformed way back. Have you spoken to any of the older people about the experience?

I can't remember where i saw it explained recently, but apparently it was a pretty authoritive regime they instigated to transform the system.

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