Podcast: Going for Housing Growth (Part 3): The Government’s proposals - Transformation or incremental change?
Dr Eric Crampton
Dr Benno Blaschke
18 July, 2025
In this final episode of their three-part series, Dr Eric Crampton, Dr Benno Blaschke and Dr Stuart Donovan critically examine the government's housing discussion document, assessing its potential to create more competitive urban land markets.
They explore whether the proposed reforms genuinely move towards a more responsive and dynamic urban development system or remain trapped in existing planning paradigms.
You can also listen to Part 1 and 2 here:
- Going for Housing Growth (Part 1): How we got into this mess - Struggling with uncompetitive urban land markets
- Going for Housing Growth (Part 2): The way out - The benefits of competitive urban land markets
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