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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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SGS Economics and Planning the price of sunshine article marcus spiller

What's the price of sunshine? Proposed mandatory height controls in Melbourne

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Open Space

Proposed planning measures to protect winter sunshine in Melbourne's public spaces could generate a benefit of between $50 million and $100 million per year.

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Declining retail centres will hurt local communities, but we can limit the damage if we act fast

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Retail

Retail centres contribute to residents' economic and social wellbeing, but declining suburban retail centres and high streets need government support to stay viable into the future.

SGS Economics and Planning Treaty

LIVE Q&A EVENT: Treaty, People, Place

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The State of Victoria is working with Aboriginal Victorians as equal partners to develop a historic first treaty (or treaties), which has the potential to redefine the relationship between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Victorians. Join us to discuss how this will affect policy and land use planning...

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Fear mongering over property taxes helps nobody: developers and the community can both win when we share the windfalls

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Housing

The new windfall gains tax has attracted special ire from the property lobby, but this fear mongering helps nobody. Both developers and the community can win.

SGS Economics and Planning Alison Fong

SGS scholarship supports student's passion for shaping adaptable and inclusive spaces

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A student in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne, Alison Fong was awarded the 2021 SGS Graham Larcombe scholarship for academic excellence and showcasing a genuine commitment to tackling social disadvantage in the urban environment.

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Windfall tax backlash misunderstands property rights

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Housing

The Victorian Government’s decision to introduce a 50 per cent tax on rezoning windfalls, announced in its 2021-22 Budget, made many peak industry bodies froth at the mouth. But criticism of the windfall tax does not consider basic economics and a common-sense view of fairness.

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