Another Tasmanian Comparative Idea

Hello

I'm also wondering if it's worth doing a project on how Texas has kept its cost of living relatively low. Ezra Klein pointed out that a house in Houston, TX was something like 300,000 USD compared to 1.1 million in San Francisco (middle-class houses, excluding wealthy suburbs that drive up the mean). Partly this is because of more efficient bureaucracies; however, both Gary Stevensons (left-wing) and Rory Sutherland (right-wing) have said that part of this involves land taxes that stop a small proportion of exceptionally wealthy people from buying up all the land. If that could be replicated here, lowering the cost of living, that would also be great.