Joey Moloney
@joeybmoloney
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Deputy Program Director, Housing and Economic Security, @GrattanInst
Melbourne, VIC
Joined October 2012
Housing in Australia is both too scarce and too expensive. Yet our major cities are among the least dense of their size in the world. Our latest Grattan report show how we can reform our urban planning rules to allow for more homes and better cities. 🧵
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The Coalition’s plan to make mortgage payments tax deductible for first home buyers who purchase a newly-built home is a big backward step for both tax and housing policy in Australia. https://t.co/FRDhG5DHLy /1
liberal.org.au
For the first time in Australia, under an elected Dutton Coalition Government, first home buyers will be able to claim a tax deduction on mortgage interest
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One arg against NG/CGT reform that should be given short shrift is that it will disrupt 'retirement planning', as if they are as much retirement as tax policy. Retirement policy is about preventing poverty and smoothing consumption. Obvious that investment property doesn't fit.
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This is an important point and goes to the heart of a disconnect in the Aus housing poliocy debate, especially between economists & planners. 1/13
@StuartBDonovan People think that places with no population growth don’t have to build more houses. But actually they do because essentially modern societies have smaller desired household sizes.
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2024 is shaping up as the year of the renter. Labor needs to do more if it wants to keep their vote. @joeybmoloney and I outline a roadmap for federal housing policy in @GuardianAus. https://t.co/tPuqFMweQ3
theguardian.com
Rents keep rising with no relief in sight. If the government can’t come up with answers, it could bear the brunt of tenants’ frustrations at the next election
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We’re very proud to announce that we’re joining with @yimbymelbourne and @SydneyYIMBY to form the Abundant Housing Network Australia, a national alliance dedicated to pursuing housing abundance and better cities across Australia! Read more on our website: https://t.co/D88BGesoCq
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Better understanding of housing affordability was a key reason I moved into the property space… so I’m really excited to launch the new PropTrack Housing Affordability Index and report today: https://t.co/p3f66KLPP8
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1/ National Cabinet meets tomorrow to tackle the rental crisis in Australia. It has a big task ahead. @GrattanInst #auspol
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Why freezing rents would do more harm than good. My latest in @smh with @joeybmoloney on how national cabinet should and should not tackle the rental crisis. We should strengthen rental protections, raise rent assistance and boost housing supply. https://t.co/lW5zl5WRCP
smh.com.au
Only when housing is plentiful will it also be affordable. So we need to build more dwellings where people want to live.
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Your morning listening just dropped! Our own @jonobri and @SydneyYIMBY’s @missneighbour were privileged to sit down with @GrattanInst to talk about the urgent need for the YIMBY movement, and the reforms we call for. https://t.co/myf25ZA8Cd
pocketcasts.com
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Move over NIMBYs, here come the YIMBYs.  A special @GrattanInst podcast on the young people’s movement that aims to revolutionise Australia’s housing policy debate. https://t.co/8r1ktxcSeL
#auspol #rents @joeybmoloney @yimbymelbourne @SydneyYIMBY @jonobri @missneighbour
pocketcasts.com
Everything you need to know about Australian public policy. Grattan Institute is dedicated to developing high quality public policy for Australia’s future. Our podcasts cover a range of public policy...
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Building on @HowardFMaclean’s critique of the absence of land use in elite policy discourse I was struck in @jollyswagmanpod’s excellent interviews with former Treasury Secretary Ken Henry about how little interest that generation of policymakers seemed to have in urban economics
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We’ve been profiled alongside @SydneyYIMBY by @EliasVisontay for @GuardianAus. The piece is fantastic, and really lays out what we’re fighting for, and why housing abundance is a fight everyone can get behind. https://t.co/4NOzwZoINT
theguardian.com
Disparate groups frustrated by lack of affordable properties are taking the fight to Nimbys as they campaign to relax planning curbs and reinvigorate suburbs
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8 things Dan Andrew’s should do to make housing more affordable Sharp analysis by @GrattanInst housing policy experts @trent_wiltshire and @joeybmoloney
https://t.co/owRfOSWciX
#auspol #springst #rents #homelessness
grattan.edu.au
Dan Andrews can right decades of policy failure on housing affordability. But it’ll take political courage.
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Are rate rises are the only way to stop inflation? @trent_wiltshire @joeybmoloney & @Kat_Clay tackle this topic on our in-depth podcast, discussing: 📈 Raising the super guarantee 🧾 Increasing tax & GST 🤑 Greedflation Listen here: https://t.co/Bz34oK6gXi
#auspol
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Any tips where to go to find data on commercial property trends (vacancy rates, rents etc)? Specifically office space.
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What do Australians actually earn and own? 🤔 Find out with our handy #Budget2023 cheat sheets. The results may surprise you... https://t.co/2IU1UMMMWN
#auspol @BrendanCoates @joeybmoloney
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Attacks on Grattan’s super policy proposals are misguided. Our reforms are hard-headed, rational – and necessary. Here’s why. @BrendanCoates #auspol
grattan.edu.au
Attacks on Grattan’s super policy proposals are wrong-headed. Our reforms are hard-headed, rational – and necessary. Here’s why.
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1/ Australia is on track for 25 years of budget deficits. Teenagers starting high school today have never seen a budget surplus and probably won’t until they are well into adulthood. The federal government needs to cut spending and raise taxes. Here’s why, and how. 🧵 #auspol
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