Stamp duty is Australian tax reform’s pantomime villain, booed and hissed by everyone whenever it appears on stage. As a tax levied on transfers – in particular, transfers of real property, including housing – it is decried by economists as a lumpy and inefficient cost to transacting parties, and an unhappily volatile revenue source for State and Territory Governments. The […]
Entries Tagged as 'Affordability'
Get rid of stamp duty – but don’t expect improved housing affordability
August 20th, 2015 · 1 Comment · Affordability
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Inquiry into affordable housing industry capacity
July 29th, 2015 · No Comments · Affordability, Housing
City Futures is partnering with RMIT, Swinburne, UQ and UTas to conduct an Inquiry into Affordable Housing Industry Capacity for AHURI. We’re looking at Australia’s small but growing affordable housing industry – including community housing providers, their funders and other partners – and investigating the capacity of this industry to restructure the social housing system to better deliver housing for low-moderate income […]
What’s the problem with foreign ownership of Australian real estate?
July 16th, 2015 · No Comments · Affordability, Housing
When housing experts at City Futures and other Sydney unis put forward recently a national 10-point plan for housing affordability, there was a lot of interest and commentary… and a lot of the commentary was about foreigners buying Australian housing. Do we need an 11-point plan – or, as some commentators seem to suggest, a one-point plan […]
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Tackling housing unaffordability: a 10-point national plan
June 24th, 2015 · No Comments · Affordability, Housing supply
Originally published at The Conversation, by Hal Pawson, UNSW Australia; Bill Randolph, UNSW Australia; Judith Yates, University of Sydney; Michael Darcy, University of Western Sydney; Nicole Gurran, University of Sydney; Peter Phibbs, University of Sydney, and Vivienne Milligan, UNSW Australia The widening cracks in Australia’s housing system can no longer be concealed. The extraordinary […]
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A Fresh Lens on Housing Unaffordability – Fixing the Problem
June 18th, 2015 · No Comments · Affordability, Housing
‘A Fresh Lens on Housing’ – Paper presented at the Urban Conversations event 10 May 2015 hosted by the Australian Graduate School of Urbanism at UNSW Built Environment, Cox Richardson Architects and Planners and the NSW Architects Registration Board. By: Prof Bill Randolph, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Built Environment Part 2 – Housing Unaffordability […]
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A Fresh Lens on Housing Unaffordability – The Problem and its Causes
June 16th, 2015 · 1 Comment · Affordability, Housing supply, Planning reform
Paper presented at the Urban Conversations event 10 June 2015 hosted by the Australian Graduate School of Urbanism at UNSW Built Environment, Cox Richardson Architects and Planners and the NSW Architects Registration Board By: Prof Bill Randolph, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Built Environment Part 1: The Problem and its Causes It is surely a […]
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Abbott, Hockey and housing
June 15th, 2015 · 2 Comments · Affordability, Housing
On behalf of everyone concerned about housing affordability, thanks to Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Treasurer Joe Hockey for putting the issue on the front pages of the media for the past two weeks. In case you missed it, the discussion got started when three of Australia’s highest-ranking financial regulators – from ASIC, the Reserve […]
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Senate report on affordable housing: landmark or lost opportunity?
May 28th, 2015 · 3 Comments · Affordability, Housing
A few weeks ago the Senate Economic References Committee released its long-awaited report on affordable housing in Australia. Senator Xenophon, a member of the committee, has described the report as a ‘landmark’ and he’s right, almost literally: the report is monumental (over 460 pages of evidence and analysis, from an 18-month inquiry that took 231 […]
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