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Are NIMBYs financially motivated or are property developers?

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Cameron Murray
Aug 10, 2020
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A puzzle came via twitter following the crazy story of RBA research claiming that if you remove planning controls, apartment prices will fall 42%.

I argued that it would be weird for property developers to lobby for policies that eroded the value of their products and sent their housing projects broke.

Andrew responded as follows:

Equally, do you think tha…

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