In the end, this scheme did deliver on some of its key promises. But it is surprising governments haven’t taken note of its shortcomings and replaced it with something even more effective.
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The people with the worst health often live in rental homes likely to make them sicker, and poor policy could make it worse.
Labor’s rental affordability scheme had its problems, but let’s not throw the baby out with the bathwater.
The government is being pressed to bring back a particularly ineffective and wasteful scheme.
A modest rebalancing of federal tax policy toward build-to-rent housing could fill affordable housing funding gaps. Australian funds are already investing in such a scheme in the US.
The National Rental Affordability Scheme (NRAS) looks set for a major shakeup by the government, following suggestions it has been hijacked by universities to develop subsidised studio apartments for wealthy…
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