Renting
New $3.5 billion incentive for states to lift housing target
National cabinet has backed a deal on housing that sets a new target to build 1.2 million homes over five years, and moves to set national principles on renters’ rights.
- by David Crowe
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Affordable housing
Albanese goes back to the future for housing reform
Giving the states a kick up the bum while offering them cash to really put more housing stock into the market is one step to repairing the damage caused by decades of poor policy.
- by Shane Wright
Opinion
Interest rates
Lowe is right: New York’s soaring rents shows why freezes won’t work
In his final appearance before parliament as Reserve Bank governor, Philip Lowe voiced his opposition towards rent freezes or caps. He may have a point.
- by William Bennett
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Housing affordability
Voters spurn idea of early poll over housing deadlock
Voters are split on whether the federal stoush over housing policy is important enough to trigger a double-dissolution election, but a clear majority has rejected the idea of going to the polls before 2025 even if the deadlock continues.
- by David Crowe
Opinion
Opinion
Why freezing rents could make more people homeless
Only when housing is plentiful will it also be affordable. So we need to build more dwellings where people want to live.
- by Brendan Coates and Joey Moloney
Afterpay and pizza dough: What a comms worker on $84,000 spends in a week
This week on Money Diaries, a communications officer who makes $84,000 a year and spends some of her money on Afterpay, pizzas, and a board game.
- by Refinery29 Australia
Opinion
Inflation
Hate price rises? Please blame supply and demand, not me
It’s clear that psychology has also played a big part in the great post-pandemic price surge. It didn’t cause it, but it caused it to be bigger than it might have been.
- by Ross Gittins
Sammi has a full-time job and paid rent for 15 years. No one will rent her a property
After being forced to vacate her home as Melbourne’s winter hit, Sammi Clarke applied for almost 20 places. Then she was asked a question that showed the depth of the housing crisis.
- by Melissa Heagney-Bayliss
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Cost of living
Six graphs show cost of living crisis is hitting those who can least afford it
People like Emma Warren are at breaking point, according to a new survey of people who are hit the hardest by rising cost of living.
- by Max Maddison
Perth’s rental vacancies still below 1 per cent as crunch attracts east coast investors
The industry hopes the vacancy rate’s inch upwards by a tiny fraction signals that the tide is finally turning for Perth’s sustained and painful rental crisis.
- by Sarah Brookes
The member for renters: How Max Chandler-Mather went from young Labor to PM’s foe
After doorknocking thousands of households, the Greens MP has a message for Canberra, and it’s one that is increasingly frustrating the federal government as it attempts to pass its $10 billion housing fund.
- by Rachel Clun