In this special episode of The Dismal Science, Stephen and Ivan discuss the housing market. Is it a bubble? Should regulators be concerned? And what can we do to make housing more affordable?

Discussed in this episode:

[0:48] Avocado toast

[0:57] Housing affordability in the budget

[4:49] Australian household debt

[6:29] APRA concerns (paragraph 5)

[6:55] RBA's subtle shift on housing

[9:28] NINJA loans

[11:20] "Get a good job that pays good money."

[15:19] Superannuation housing plan under consideration?

[19:21] Sydney annual house appreciation

[19:59] Sydney's average house-to-income ratio (second only to Hong Kong)

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In the second episode of the AICD’s new weekly economics podcast, Stephen and Ivan discuss the ‘disaster’ that was the February jobs numbers, Western Australia’s economy post mining boom and the AICD’s number of the week.

In the first episode of the AICD’s new weekly economics podcast, Stephen and Ivan discuss the Reserve Bank’s copy-and-paste interest rate decision, society’s anxieties about the robot revolution and the AICD’s number of the week.