The crisis of affordable and secure housing is widely seen as the number one problem facing Australians and the generational pessimism is hard to miss. Jim McIlroy reports on the Australian Council of Trade Union’s welcome push for public housing.
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Labor is boasting that its latest budget delivers the most significant transformation of the tax system in a quarter century. But, as Peter Boyle argues, this is more spin than reality.
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Lots of kites are being flown about how to make housing affordable in the lead-up to the May budget. Graham Matthews argues that Labor could raise the tax rate to the OECD average and immediately have an extra $140 billion for public housing.
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Labor is coming under growing pressure to wind back negative gearing and capital gains tax exemptions to address the housing affordability crisis. Isaac Nellist reports.
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Labor can’t lead the fight for housing, because its policies have helped create the problem. Sam Wainwright argues that winning requires a vision for systemic change, including defending and extending public housing and strengthening protections for tenants.
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MPs from both major parties have absorbed an investor–style thinking, even towards public housing. Andrew Chuter argues that naïve economic theories of supply and demand will not fix the homelessness problem.
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