Tag: Rental housing
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.
Drop the talk about 'mum and dad' landlords. It lets property investors off the hook
Well-off investors with multiple properties own a majority of rental homes. They have no excuse not to do the right thing by their tenants.
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.
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.
