In his budget reply on Thursday night, Dutton tapped into the electorally emotive issues of housing and immigration with the new measures he put forward.
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A Coalition government would drastically slash migration as its main way of freeing up more than 100,000 homes over five years, Opposition leader Peter Dutton has promised in his budget reply.
Holding up Labor’s female vote will be vital, Treasurer Jim Chalmers has declared Tuesday will bring “a budget for mums and middle Australia”.
Community housing is not a silver bullet to Canada’s housing crisis. But a strong community housing sector can play a significant role in providing all Canadians with the right to adequate housing.
There is a long history of the UK government failing to adequately provide for Gypsy and Traveller communities’ needs.
Australia’s rental crisis has been a long-standing problem and will not be repaired unless there is real reform of both supply and demand issues.
Urban policy needs to look beyond housing development and address the land ownership patterns that underpin our cities.
What are ‘squatters’ rights’ and do they apply in Australia? They do, but using them will likely prove difficult.
Amid a housing affordability crisis, new research suggests the federal government should allocate resources to the housing needs of children being raised by single mothers.
For the Commonwealth, the best measure is rent assistance. For the states, it’s a mix of two-thirds first homebuyer grants and one-third stamp duty discounts.
To truly make UK housing safe and healthful for residents, the government needs a comprehensive strategy.
New estimates suggest that if just one state, New South Wales, scrapped its stamp duty, an extra 100,000 Australians would move homes each year.
A new report on sustainable and affordable housing falls short by failing to fully consider land-and-housing market dynamics.
Co-operatives make up only a small part of Australia’s accommodation stock but their users say the benefits warrant it being considered as a way of easing the housing crisis.
Helping adult children buy homes is risky, especially because what begins as a loan can turn into an unintended gift.
Australia builds only 45,000 new homes per quarter. If we really want to fix the rent crisis we’ll have to build more.
Neither investors nor super funds are prepared to wear the losses needed to put low-income Australians into housing. The government should double the size of its Housing Australia Future Fund.
Despite different theories, there is no simple answer to whether prospective home buyers are better off buying before or after the expected interest rate drop in the next year.
Negative gearing is popular because it lowers home owners’ tax bills. But its critics say it has reduced affordable housing stock keeping the less well off out of the market.
Even changing the tax system won’t end steadily-climbing property prices. They are the result of urbanisation, and while COVID has eased some of the pressures, it has added some more.
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Emeritus Professor of Housing, UNSW
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Associate Professor & Global Challenge Lead, Urban Transformations Research Centre, Western Sydney University; University of British Columbia
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Associate Profesor, School of Planning, University of Waterloo
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor, Urban Studies and Public Policy, Simon Fraser University
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Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Sydney
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Emeritus Professor, Urban Planning and Policy, University of Sydney
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Professor of Housing & Social Policy, HHAUS Housing, Homelessness & Urban Studies, Swinburne University of Technology
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John Curtin Distinguished Professor, Curtin University
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Associate Professor, Sociology cross-listed in Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Western University
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Alan Morris is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor, Institute for Public Policy and Governance, University of Technology Sydney
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Executive Dean, UniSA Business, Adelaide University
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Visiting professor, Harvard University
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Professor of Housing Research, Adelaide University
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Research associate, The University of Melbourne