The federal government should provide incentive payments to state and local governments prepared to reform their planning systems and build more housing.
Property investing seems like a bet that we,as a society,will prove unable,over the longer term,to match our housing supply to our housing needs,hence pushing up prices.
Having watched violent anti-lockdown protests unfold on their city streets,readers shared their frustrations at those who flouted the restrictions,but also those in power.
Affordable housing advocates say federal Labor has abandoned Australians on low incomes in favour of wealthy landlords.
The ALP’s backflips on property taxes are a betrayal of Australians squeezed out of the housing market,especially the young.
Labor went to both the 2016 and 2019 elections promising to halve the 50 per cent capital gains tax deduction and limit negative gearing to new properties only.
Sydney’s property market is going through the roof ... again. So what are the factors driving prices ever northwards and why are we content to allow the boom to continue?
I worry about the future of this country when even the most basic of needs – housing – is out of reach.
The reality is that private rental housing guzzles government subsidies that in total dwarf what we put into public housing.
Sydney and Melbourne’s inner-city rental markets are starting to recover after months of falling rents and surging vacancies due to closed international borders and restrictions hitting CBDs.
The Ardern government will effectively kill New Zealand’s version of negative gearing as it tries to slow 25 per cent spike in house price growth.