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Even after a federal budget boost, Australia won’t have enough skilled tradespeople to work on existing homes – let alone build the new homes being promised.
The US and UK both face a housing crisis. But while US policy has stalled, the UK has just enacted major protections for renters.
New national research shows unmet housing need among First Nations households is double the rate of other Australians. But there are solutions.
One Australian survey found more than a third of private renters feel their housing situation is harming their mental health.
If governments now see AI as a tool to reform housing planning and assessments, they shouldn’t rush headlong.
The Albanese government is bringing forward by three months to October 1 implementation of its 5% deposit guarantee for all first home buyers.
The NSW government was broadly lauded when it scrapped no-grounds evictions but a recent change could make things tougher for tenants.
If housing violations arise, it’s on tenants to defend their rights. It’s a system that may not be effective at preventing poor health.
Americans are realizing that the country’s two-tiered system of market-rate housing and government-operated, low-income housing isn’t doing the trick.
The Greens will be searching for a new way forward and now a new leader, with Adam Bandt conceding he has lost his seat.
Neither major party wants to change two longstanding concessions for property investors – negative gearing and the capital gains tax discount. We invited four experts to unpack who benefits, and how.
Labor and the Coalition have both made some big housing policy announcements this election, but there are real problems going unaddressed.
The major parties have announced housing policies that take a more novel approach to improving affordability than previously.
‘40 acres and a mule’ never happened. Now governments and communities across the US are redistributing land and wealth, from Evanston, Illinois, to Athens, Georgia.
Too many homes will remain vulnerable to climate-related extreme weather events unless there is better coordinated housing policy and disaster management.
Agencies that help people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness are struggling to house them because of the shortfall of social housing and intense competition for affordable rentals.
Many feared that the Tenant Fees Act 2019 would drive up rental fees, but it has saved renters an average of £400 per tenancy.
In 2024’s final parliamentary sitting, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese reverted to a role he played in Julia Gillard’s government after he personally intervened to get Labor’s legislation passed.
With the government’s legislation passing the senate, Australia has new tax concessions to drive the construction of rental properties. Here’s how they work.
Top contributors
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Emeritus Professor of Housing, UNSW
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John Curtin Distinguished Professor, Curtin University
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Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Sydney
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Professor of Housing Research, Adelaide University
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Professor, City Futures Research Centre, Faculty of the Built Environment, UNSW
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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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Research associate, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Research Fellow, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW
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Head of Urbanism and Associate Professor of Urban Studies, School of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney
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Associate professor in urbanism, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, Geography and Urban Studies, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Social Epidemiology and Director of the Centre of Research Excellence in Healthy Housing at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne
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John Curtin Distinguished Professor, Curtin Business School, Curtin University
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Honorary Professor of Housing Policy and Practice, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW