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Planning public toilets: An inconvenient necessity for local governments

Insights Community Infrastructure Health

We can't have housing without thinking about sustainable cities

Insights Housing

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

Insights For Purpose Housing

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SGS Economics and Planning Doctor

With a $1m Google grant, Harry is sitting pretty in Sydney's jobs market

Media

As Sydney's population surges, people with creative, highly skilled jobs are safe from automation. But what does it mean for others? Modelling by SGS Economics and Planning, one of Australia’s most respected regional economics firms, shows a narrow strip of land running from the airport through the CBD and North Sydney to Macquarie Park is dominating the city's growth...

SGS Economics Planning Marcus Spiller PIA Award

Marcus Spiller awarded Planning Institute of Australia Life Fellowship

What's New

Between being inspired by a planning handbook in high school and being awarded Life Fellowship of the Planning Institute of Australia, Marcus Spiller has had a very full and impactful career.

SGS Economics and Planning Clean economy report

Transitioning to a clean economy and reducing emissions would save the Australian economy $549 billion over the next decade.

Insights

Environment

Transitioning to a clean economy and reducing emissions would save the Australian economy $549 billion over the next decade while at the same time providing a number of social and environmental benefits.

SGS Economics and Planning Homlessness Data

Australian-first dataset informs housing and homelessness

Insights

Housing

For the first time, the dashboard brings together approximately 7 million data points from across 20 key national housing and homelessness datasets – including the SGS Economics and Planning award-winning Rental Affordability Index data.

SGS Economics and Planning Crown Street Stables

Let’s get sipping: New Crown Street Stables café supports people with disability

What's New

For Purpose

Five years ago, Ellen Witte and Tara Callinan worked with Moonee Valley City Council to prepare the business and financial plans for a café with a social purpose. Now up and running in a restored heritage building in Flemington, Crown Street Stables café provides a vital training and employment pathway for people with a disability.

SGS Economics and Planning James A

Adelaide's land tax rent claims not an open and shut case

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Housing

Claims that controversial changes to SA’s land tax system will push up rents are overblown, as supply and demand dictate that landlords can’t pass on the extra cost and price themselves out of the market, argues James Atkinson.

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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