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I am sorry but the study you are citing is just appallingly bad. The quantitative claim it actually makes is that "after controlling for one measure of rents, more international students are not associated with increases in another measure". It would fail an undergrad econometrics course.

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I strongly support immigration. I think that the impact of especially international students is overrated as a factor in housing costs. I do not think making the claim that "immigration requires building more homes" is blaming immigration for rising housing costs, it is acknowledging reality.

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I asked you a question?!?

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Genuine question- is your position that immigration has, all else equal, no impact on housing costs?

Dom @dbecon.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Before PIA or any of the other ticket clippers are allowed to whinge about a 'planner shortage', can we try not needing: - 60 pages of documentation - a month long notification period - a public panel meeting To permit a restaurant to convert to a bar, with the same operating hours!

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Dom @dbecon.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

By far the best thing Noah Smith has written in a while. Krugman's simply the best to ever do it, and a role model for us all to aspire to

noahpinion.blog

How Paul Krugman changed the public face of economics

He's a great economist, but he also changed how we talk about the subject.

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 10/12/2024

There is not a Party in Australia which is honest with itself about housing. The Libs just want the money tap to flow votes forever. Labor wants prices to rise and come down at the same time. The greens want massive public housing builds but without actually altering any suburbs. None of it is real

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Sydney YIMBY @sydney.yimby.au · 10/12/2024

We’re going to fall well short of our housing accord target and DPHI is responding by watering down their reforms to the consistency of skim milk. People are sleeping in their cars and they’re handwringing over whether four storey apartments are “discordant” with $3m terraces adjacent to the CBD.

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Dom @dbecon.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Planning is all about matching development to infrastructure capacity- that's why we build all our housing out West where half the kids are in demountable classrooms and don't build where principals are desperate for more kids.

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Canberrans are also good citizens

is this a.... special?

this despite almost zero actual enforcement! we are a moral, high trust people

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possibly the thing I am most smug about Sydney relative to other cities is that almost everyone taps on the bus

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Multiple university faculties, multinational companies, large local businesses, sizeable professional firms. All incapable of doing the right thing! I don't think Australian minimum wage standards are too high, but they're clearly too complex.

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Today I crossed an important milestone- every single employer I have ever had (except for my current one) have now backpaid me for paying under the award. 5 from 5 baby!

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The acre of flat land next to the station should touch the face of god.

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I'm strongly anti online and sports gambling. Casinos I see as just formalising something that's always going to exist, and this is a fine enough building to put one in

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Dom @dbecon.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I'm far from an expert but to my untrained eye, compared to 75% of the buildings in the cbd, the casino is pretty good! Never really understood the hate it gets. Nice public foreshore, reasonably attractive design. It's fine!

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There are two trains both going to Newcastle on opposite sides of the platform and people have been shuffled between the two about 5 times. Not optimistic about my chances

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Dom @dbecon.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Attempting a Mariyung gunzel trip this evening, currently a v set and an oscar have been sitting on the platform for 20 minutes

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Laura Bronner @laurabronner.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

3) Check your fucking code.

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Dom @dbecon.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Australian banks today are infinitely leaner and more efficient than they used to be, which has occurred in response to their margins getting absolutely battered since the 90s. This is a good thing. Cheap loans are more important than wasteful branches for boomers.

Dom @dbecon.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Appalling stories from the Northern Beaches Hospital. It shouldn't be surprising that they're struggling with staffing when the only housing nearby are $4m mansions and public transport options are pathetic. If we want to fix our hospitals, we need to build homes for staff to live.

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Dom @dbecon.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Fewer more cursed phrases in the English language than 'Freakonomics Analysis Needed"

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Dom @dbecon.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Great paper on a rare topic: impact of planning changes in a city without a critical shortage of housing

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Dom @dbecon.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Working class people not being able to afford the birthplace of the Labor Party? Not important to heritage. Some green paint on a 1990s supermarket? Foul desecration

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There's a bloke who's now on his 5th day in a row posting multi paragraph screeds in the Balmain facebook page about how this building being painted green is an affront to the priceless heritage of the area.

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Interesting stuff- have you come across any estimates of relative expenditure on heating vs cooling? In qld/wa there's obviously more AC but interested where Sydney/Melbourne sit

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My work has an in-house, walled-off version of GPT-4o for use with more sensitive data, but it always seems to give substantially worse answers than public gpt-4o. Is the data leakage really important? Or is it not really 4o but a different thing entirely

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Worth noting these are building approvals, not planning approvals, so almost all of them will commence construction shortly.

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Green shoots! Unambiguously good news, but still a long way to go

No-one is calling for safety standards/the building code to be relaxed! The line as to where regulation is needed is where people can understand what they're signing up for- which size, light and storage clearly are.

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Huge numbers of apartments fall way below modern standards for light, size, storage and the myriad other design minimums. If these minimums are so necessary for wellbeing, why fight so hard to prevent redevelopment into new, larger units? Surely that's inadequate units being brought up to scratch

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They sell premix midori fucking slices here I'm in heaven

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My bank account is now $24.99 lighter

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