Homepage

Let’s Hack Housing 2024

Commonwealth has the power to shift outcomes on housing rental – here’s how

RMIT’s Jago Dodson and Liam Davies argue the Commonwealth can use its tax powers to regulate better conditions in private rental housing by restructuring and sharpening the negative gearing and capital gains tax discounts.

by Jago Dodson, RMIT and Liam Davies, RMIT

NEWS FROM THE FRONT

IN brief

Latest news highlights September 2024

One year on from community housing ESG reporting standards, Grenfell’s final report released, New ARBS White Paper, Australia celebrates inaugural SDG Flag Day, CBRE says Sydney is “not ready to meet sustainability targets” and more

TFE events

Let’s hack housing: What some of our panellists say

by Tina Perinotto

Housing

Louise Crabtree-Hayes: why housing cooperatives can deliver so many benefits and why they are so different to community housing providers

by Tina Perinotto

Infrastructure & transport

What the National Bus and Coach show tells us about decarbonising transport

by Bevin Liu

Spinifex

There’s a big equity issue in urban greening and cooling and local councils need more power to tackle it

by Ozgur Gocer, Anusha Roy and Shamila Haddad

People

Richie Merzian on the immense opportunities for Australia to host COP31 and to partner with Asia

by Murray Hogarth

Buildings, Batteries and Big Sheds ebook

Take part in this new ebook on how our biggest buildings and special purpose facilities can help in the net zero transition. Click on this page to find out how.