Tag: Housing affordability
How can Australia make housing affordable for essential workers? Here are 4 key lessons from overseas
Successful programs overseas have been highly targeted, financially innovative and used planning systems and public land to provide essential workers with housing they can afford.
If you squat in a vacant property, does the law give you the house for free? Well, sort of
What are ‘squatters’ rights’ and do they apply in Australia? They do, but using them will likely prove difficult.
Housing and the Albanese government: a mid-term report card
The government has made housing a federal policy priority after a decade of neglect. But the scale of the housing crisis means its actions to date are just a start – much more must be done.
What are young Australians most worried about? Finding affordable housing, they told us
We thought after the worst of a global pandemic, young people’s outlook for the future might have improved. Our survey shows they’ve actually gotten worse.
Think curbing overseas migration will end the housing crisis? It won't – and we can't afford to do it
COVID-19 halted immigration and housing affordability got much worse. We’d feel the impacts of internal migration and undersupply of affordable housing even if we again blocked migrants from overseas.
