Housing: Axe car-parking rules to ease the housing crisis

Every night, thousands of car spaces across Australia’s cities sit empty.

This is the result of state and local governments requiring new housing projects to include off-street parking at rates much higher than residents want or need.

In this podcast, Grattan housing expert Matthew Bowes talks to co-author Ashleigh Chang about our report, ‘Wasted space: Axe car-parking rules to ease the housing crisis’, and how can we better manage parking in our cities and get more homes built for less.

Read our report: https://grattan.edu.au/report/wasted-space-axe-car-parking-rules-to-ease-the-housing-crisis/

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