How to improve housing affordability and why the Greedflation thesis is wrong w/ Simon Cowan, CIS - EP203

<p>Host Gene Tunny and Simon Cowan from the Centre for Independent Studies discuss housing affordability and greedflation in the CIS’s Sydney HQ. They delve into recent articles written by Simon on these topics and explore the factors contributing to unaffordable housing (e.g. zoning and other supply restrictions) and why the greedflation thesis is wrong. </p><p>Please get in touch with any questions, comments and suggestions by emailing us at <a href="mailto:contact@economicsexplored.com">contact@economicsexplored.com</a> or sending a voice message via <a href="https://www.speakpipe.com/economicsexplored">https://www.speakpipe.com/economicsexplored</a>. </p><h3>About this episode’s guest: Simon Cowan</h3><p><a href="https://www.cis.org.au/person/simon-cowan/">Simon Cowan</a> is Research Director at the CIS. He is a leading commentator on policy and politics, with a regular column in the Canberra Times newspaper, frequent interviews on Sky and the ABC, and multiple appearances before parliamentary committees discussing the budget, citizenship, taxation and health policy. He has written extensively on government spending and fiscal policy, with a specific focus on welfare and superannuation policy. He earlier work focused on government industry policy, defence and regulation.</p><p>His latest work includes<i> </i><a href="https://www.cis.org.au/publication/attitudes-to-a-post-covid-australia/">Attitudes to a post-Covid Australia</a> and <a href="https://www.cis.org.au/publication/millennials-and-super-the-case-for-voluntary-superannuation/">Millennials and Super: the case for voluntary superannuation</a>. Some of his other works include a <a href="https://www.cis.org.au/publication/the-age-old-problem-of-old-age-fixing-the-pension-2/">co-authored report on pensions</a>, a deep dive into the <a href="https://www.cis.org.au/publication/ubi-universal-basic-income-is-an-unbelievably-bad-idea/">Universal Basic Income</a>, and a 2012 piece arguing that <a href="https://www.cis.org.au/commentary/opinion/facts-favour-nucl