Billionaires Crawling All Over Our Democracy

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Billionaires Are Crawling All Over Our Democracy by Renegadeeconomists on Mixcloud Renegade Economists podcast 355 As broadcast on 3CR Wed August 27th, 2014. Subscribe to the free weekly podcast here or listen live 5.30pm. Ferguson court revenues Washington Post: Many rely on revenue generated from traffic tickets and related fines. According to a study by the St. Louis nonprofit Better … Read More

The Buyer’s Pyramid

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Renegade Economists Show 335 As broadcast on 3CR Wednesday April 16th, 2014 Listen here An extended podcast with journalist Catherine Cashmore discussing her experience on both sides of the real estate game. Why is it so essential for the public to understand the importance of economic rent? After insight into the world of real estate agents and buyers advocates, we … Read More

Housing Inquiry Submission

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Earthsharing’s Senate Housing Submission is now online. 149 submissions have been uploaded so far, with (it seems) more to come. We were particularly pleased to see a number of our members submitting their own policy reform agenda. Survey the submissions from the Parliamentary website. The submission: Senate Submission into Housing Affordability 14 Deterrents to Affordability by Karl Fitzgerald, Project Director, … Read More

EU’s 11 million empty homes a speculators paradise

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Here at Earthsharing we could argue to be world leaders in the measurement of vacant housing. For 6 years we have quantified vacant housing with the Speculative Vacancy report. For five of those years we have been using water consumption as a proxy for vacant housing. This was a likely inspiration for the Chinese State Grid Power company to use … Read More

How many empty homes this year?

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Thurs Oct 31st, 6.30pm Presenter: Philip Soos 2/22 Punch Lane, CBD RSVP Download the report from our Prosper website. Its time for the 6th annual Speculative Vacancies report. Yes that time where we ask – what could thousands of empty homes do for affordable housing? The tragedy is – few understand how supply and demand work any more. Do a … Read More