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Australia’s rental crisis reaches new heights: 2024 Rental Affordability Index

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Community Benefit Sharing: A Path to Equitable Development

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Reflecting on a year of impact

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SGS Economics and Planning Innovation Precinct Paper

From alleys to valleys: creating innovation precincts through inclusive policy

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Arts and Culture, Education, Employment

Public policy literature overwhelmingly focuses on premium inner-city innovation precincts - but planned innovation outside typical inner-city innovation precincts is both important and possible. In this paper, we identify what makes planned innovation precincts successful and recommend that policymakers consider different policy mixes to support innovation in both the alleys of the cities and the valleys of the regions.

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Development contributions for affordable housing: theory and implementation

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Housing

This paper has two purposes: to provide a clear justification in planning and economic theory for affordable housing contributions and to propose specific mechanisms by which affordable housing contributions can be efficiently and equitably generated via the planning and development assessment process.

SGS Economics and Planning Parking problems2

Parking problems: An economics perspective

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Transport

For as long as we have had cars in cities, we have needed to find places to park them. But how should we manage the allocation of valuable urban land for car parking? Part of the answer can be found in paid parking and the economics behind it.

SGS Economics and Planning Greenfield Growth

Better value from greenfield urban infrastructure in Victoria

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Current arrangements for approving new housing projects in Melbourne’s outer suburbs are wasting the available funds for infrastructure in these areas, shows new research.

SGS Economics and Planning public open space 2

Planning for high quality and well used public open spaces

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Open Space

More and more people are recognising the importance of open space for liveable, productive and sustainable cities. This article explores some of the opportunities in a new metropolitan open space strategy for Melbourne.

SGS Economics and Planning new schools

Rethinking the business case for new schools

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Education

Australian cities will continue to face a growing demand for school places in their established areas; most notably in their inner areas, as urban renewal activities underpin ongoing population growth.

SGS Economics and Planning acknowledge the First Nations Peoples of Australia and on whose Country we live and work. We acknowledge that the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of Australia never ceded their sovereignty, and are one of the oldest continuing living cultures on Earth, have one of the oldest continuing land tenure systems in the world, and have one of the oldest continuing land use planning and management systems in the world.

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