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Urban Planning: It’s a Cultural Problem
Tuesday, 23 March 2010, 3:46 pm | Hugh Pavletich
Many New Zealanders are now aware that our cities need to deal with serious structural issues, but may not have a particularly clear understanding of the linkages of the major issues, and most importantly, the common cause. More >>
Urban Planning: An Academic Who “Gets It”
Monday, 8 March 2010, 12:01 pm | Hugh Pavletich
On December 3, 2009, Dr Gerard Mildner of the Portland State University spoke before the Institute of Real Estate Management at the Oregon Convention Center. Dr Milder had recently moved from teaching a generation of student’s at the Institutions ... More >>
Housing Bubbles: Jumbo Mortgages = Jumbo Problems
Tuesday, 2 March 2010, 2:35 pm | Hugh Pavletich
In early February this year, the New York Federal Reserve released expanded data on credit conditions . More >>
Housing Bubbles And Dumb Denial
Monday, 22 February 2010, 3:40 pm | Hugh Pavletich
The wild production swings of housing bubble markets create havoc and poor performance within the housing development / construction sectors – turning disciplined commercial cultures in to “bubble and bust” cowboy ones. More >>
Housing Affordability - How Does Your City Rate?
Monday, 25 January 2010, 12:42 pm | Hugh Pavletich
The Curse of Politically Engineered Research
Friday, 4 December 2009, 4:21 pm | Hugh Pavletich
On November 20th 2009 information was leaked from the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia , casting serious doubt on climate research carried out within this institution and other institutions around the world. While the vintage ... More >>
Housing Bubbles: Americans Ignoring Reality?
Friday, 13 November 2009, 4:38 pm | Hugh Pavletich
Within this article - The Comprehensive State of the U.S. Housing Market: Learning to Love the Housing Data and Forgetting the Economic Facts. Everything you wanted to know about U.S. Housing Trends. » Dr. Housing Bubble Blog – Dr Housing Bubble ... More >>
Economists ‘Cart Before The Horse’ Problem
Monday, 6 July 2009, 10:44 am | Hugh Pavletich
Within this recent New York Times article Fair Game - So Many Foreclosures, So Little Logic , a report from the United States Comptroller of the Currency, indicates that there is promising data regarding loan modification trends in the United States. More >>
Housing Bubbles Are A Local Issue
Tuesday, 26 May 2009, 10:53 am | Hugh Pavletich
A recent Wall Street Journal article by Nick Timiraos “Why Didn’t the Housing Bubble Mess With Texas?” (CBS News version) suggests Americans are belatedly waking up - realizing that Texas did not experience a housing bubble – and are now asking ... More >>
Housing & Land Use Regulatory Issues: NZ leads
Wednesday, 20 May 2009, 10:22 am | Hugh Pavletich
The Performance Urban Planning www.PerformanceUrbanPlanning.org website has been updated, to include the latest political developments with respect to housing and land use regulatory issues. More >>
Housing : Focus on Structural Issues
Monday, 4 May 2009, 3:19 pm | Hugh Pavletich
It would appear the Australian economist Christopher Joye of Rismark International (An analysis of the Australian Property Market - L P Shadow - Business Spectator) and the promoter of the failed housing shared equity schemes, has been much distracted ... More >>
United States House Building Below Replacement
Friday, 17 April 2009, 3:22 pm | Hugh Pavletich
United States building permits on an annual basis have fallen a further 9% to 513,000 – which with its population of approximately 305 million – represents a residential building permitting annual rate / per thousand population of a meager 1.68 / 1000. ... More >>
Housing Bubbles & Deceit
Tuesday, 7 April 2009, 10:17 am | Hugh Pavletich
As William Black, a regulator during the Savings & Loans Crisis explains within this Video – the major cause of these financial crises are fraud and deceit. It needs to be borne in mind, however, that the finance sector didn’t have a “monopoly” ... More >>
New Zealands Pragmatic Political Approach Welcome
Friday, 20 March 2009, 1:19 pm | Hugh Pavletich
The era of nine years of interventionist style government , led by the Labour Party in coalition came to a close in New Zealand 8 November last year and was replaced with centre right parties led by the dominant and pragmatic National Party. More >>
Housing Bubbles: Learning From Houston
Wednesday, 25 February 2009, 10:15 am | Hugh Pavletich
Mid last year, the satirical website, The Onion, pleaded for “just one more bubble” in "Recession-Plagued Nation Demands New Bubble To Invest In'’. A vain hope………… More >>
The Dangers Of Superficial Knowledge
Monday, 9 February 2009, 9:41 am | Hugh Pavletich
Within Our Epistemological Depression — The American, A Magazine of Ideas Jerry Z Muller, Professor of History at the Catholic University of America and the author of The Mind and the Market: Capitalism in Modern European Thought outlines how those ... More >>
NZ Herald ‘Home Truths’ Article Confused
Monday, 2 February 2009, 9:42 am | Hugh Pavletich
The New Zealand Herald is to be warmly commended for fostering constructive public discussion on the housing issue with its Saturday, January 31, 2009 article, "Home Truths" More >>
NZ Government Housing Commitment Applauded
Friday, 30 January 2009, 11:52 am | Hugh Pavletich
Following the recent release of the 2009 5th Edition Demographia International Hopusing Affordability Survey, the New Zealand National led Coalition Government Housing Minister Hon Phil Heatley, soon after released a public statement "Bringing better balance ... More >>
Housing Bubbles And Market Sense
Friday, 9 January 2009, 10:25 am | Hugh Pavletich
Recently - Professor Paul Krugman of Princeton University wrote within a brief New York Times article Bubble Blindness – “The big mystery is the (economists) failure to see the housing bubble. The data screamed “bubble”even in real time. And there ... More >>
Open Letter: NZ Local Government & Housing
Thursday, 18 December 2008, 3:06 pm | Hugh Pavletich
Further to your response email of Sunday December 7, 2008 with respect to housing / local government matters, where you stated “Let’s say we agree on the diagnosis, what is the tool to catalyze change in local government thinking?”– I have had ... More >>
