Tag: Housing policy
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.
View from the Hill: Albanese and Chalmers play cat-and-mouse on negative gearing with the public – and possibly with each other
Is the government about to propose changes to negative gearing? The apparent differences between a bullish treasurer and a cautious prime minister leave us none the wiser.
Can Australia end homelessness? Yes, we know how, but we must find the will to do it
Our governments now have all the evidence they need to end homelessness. The new National Housing and Homelessness Plan is an opportunity to put it into practice.
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.
Will taxing short stays boost long-term rental supply? Other policies would achieve more
Other states may well follow Victoria’s lead, but the 7.5% levy is likely to have a very modest impact on rental housing supply. There’s much more governments could do.
The rental housing crisis is hurting our most vulnerable and demands a range of solutions (but capping rents isn't one of them)
The people with the worst health often live in rental homes likely to make them sicker, and poor policy could make it worse.
Ageing in a housing crisis: growing numbers of older Australians are facing a bleak future
An ageing population is caught in a perfect storm of rising house prices and rents, falling home ownership rates, mortgage debt carried into retirement, insecure rentals and a lack of social housing.
Efforts to find safe housing for homeless youth have gone backwards. Here's what the new national plan must do differently
The last time an Australian government made housing the homeless a priority was 15 years ago. The Albanese government’s promised plan is a second chance to get it right by drawing on models that work.
'It's soul-destroying': how people on a housing wait list of 175,000 describe their years of waiting
People on the general waiting list can wait a decade to be housed. Even those on the priority list may wait years. Asked how the wait affects them, their responses reveal devastating impacts.
