💡 Struggling with housing costs? Our latest blog explores the factors behind Australia's affordability crisis and potential solutions. Read more! #HousingAffordability #RealEstate
https://www.constructor.net.au/tackling-the-housing-affordability-crisis-in-australia/
Tech bro move — act concerned, do nothing: "Meta promised $1 billion for affordable housing. Then it quietly walked away"
https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2025/05/20/meta-facebook-billion-housing/
h/t @mloxton
https://med-mastodon.com/@mloxton/114545892313658138
#California #meta #HousingCrisis #housing #HousingAffordability #HousingAvailability
@dyckron
Yes, Australia is likely to follow if Canada tips into recession. Even if we avoid a technical recession, real living standards here are already falling—wages, housing, and services are all under strain.
As for mass immigration, it’s helping headline GDP and supplying cheap labour, but per capita outcomes are going backwards. Without matching investment in infrastructure, housing, and wages, the policy is becoming economically and socially unsustainable.
#auspol #ausrecession #immigrationpolicy #costoflivingcrisis #housingaffordability #gdppercapita #canadarecession #massimmigration
#assistedlivingcosts #boomerfinancialsecrecy #budgetingwithparents #caregiverstress #elderfinancialabuse #familyfinancialplanning #familywealtherosion #financialliteracy #financialtransparency #financialtrauma #generationalmoneytalk #housingaffordability #intergenerationalwealthtransfer #millennialanxiety #millennialfinancialburden #moneytaboo #parentaldebtdisclosure #Ponzischemevictims #RetirementPlanning #reversemortgagerisks
Melbourne: A rare house price oasis in Australia’s overheated property market.
While most capitals are pricing out first home buyers, Melbourne is quietly becoming more accessible — thanks in large part to Victoria’s investor-targeted tax regime.
No praise, of course, is given to the state government for:
• The Vacant Residential Land Tax (discouraging empty homes)
• Higher land tax rates on investment properties
• The windfall gains tax on rezoned land
These measures have cooled investor demand and helped keep prices within reach of everyday buyers. Other states take note.
https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2025/05/how-melbourne-transformed-into-a-house-price-oasis/
#melbourneproperty #housingaffordability #firsthomebuyer #victoriapolitics #propertyinvestors #realestateaus #melbournehousing #australianproperty #housingpolicy #landtax #macrobusiness #propertymarket
Brick by brick: building a sustainable and affordable housing future for Europe [Promoted content]: Across the European Union, the twin challenges of #housingaffordability and #climateresilience are converging—and they are compounded by a third: the ongoing geopolitical instability which in turns has led to fluctuating prices, and an unsustainable dependence on Russian gas, deepening the strain on European households and industry alike. https://www.euractiv.com/section/eet/opinion/brick-by-brick-building-a-sustainable-and-affordable-housing-future-for-europe/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=dlvr.it
OnlineFirst - "Financialization, housing rents, and affordability in Toronto" by Martine August and Cloé St-Hilaire:
#financialization #rents #rentalhousing #Toronto #housingaffordability
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0308518X251328129
$10.billion Housing Australia Fund Is it DOING enough?
Why ? is the Fund NOT investing DIRECTLY in fasttracking home building and/or mortgage relief ? This would immediately stimulate sectors of the economy such as builders and suppliers. Plus the new homes would be provided FAST.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qV9eJOLRt2Q
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#australia #government #election2025 #election #housingaffordability #economy #homelessness #scandal #scam
Item 12.1 recommends sending out a draft policy on unhosted short term rental accommodation for public feedback. The new draft policy responds to revised State rules and our recently-adopted Local Planning Scheme 2. The officer report notes that we had 35 applications for housing to become short-term rentals last year, a notable increase.
The draft is here: https://www.victoriapark.wa.gov.au/council-meetings/agenda-briefing-forum/agenda-briefing-forum-01-april-2025/1081/documents/12.1.1_draft_revised_lpp_31___unhosted_short_term_rental_accommodation_and_residential_buildings.pdf
#housing #housingaffordability
"A city with no future" – The real cost of Sydney's housing crisis.
Young people see #Sydney as a temporary stop, a place to study or work for a few years before being priced out. The housing crisis is forcing them to leave, taking their dreams and futures with them.
#SydneyHousingCrisis #CostOfLiving #HousingAffordability #YoungPeopleLeaving #SydneyRealEstate #PricedOut #FutureOfSydney #Housingcrisis
In 2004, the Howard-Costello government dismissed a Productivity Commission recommendation to review property tax treatments, fearing it could spark a surge in house prices. This decision—and the inaction of successive governments—highlights a dereliction of duty on one of the most critical factors affecting national living standards.
#HousingCrisis #PropertyTax #AustralianPolitics #CostOfLiving #HousingAffordability #EconomicPolicy #Auspol
The U.S. DOJ, in collaboration with state attorneys general submitted an updated complaint allegations suggest that certain landlords' practices have led to soaring rents #justice #housing #housingaffordability #landlords #RentalCosts
https://newsmeapp.com/justice-department-sues-six-major-landlords-for-illegal-algorithmic-pricing-scheme-harmful-to-renters-nationwide/
The U.S. DOJ, in collaboration with state attorneys general submitted an updated complaint allegations suggest that certain landlords' practices have led to soaring rents #justice #housing #housingaffordability #landlords #RentalCosts
https://newsmeapp.com/justice-department-sues-six-major-landlords-for-illegal-algorithmic-pricing-scheme-harmful-to-renters-nationwide/
'Coffin' flats epitomize inequality in high-rent Hong Kong
New laws will set space minimums to fight housing inequality in a region where 200,000 people live in cramped quarters.
#housingaffordability #architecture #inequality #builtenvironment #interiordesign
'Coffin' flats epitomize inequ...
'Coffin' flats epitomize inequality in high-rent Hong Kong
New laws will set space minimums to fight housing inequality in a region where 200,000 people live in cramped quarters.
#housingaffordability #architecture #inequality #shelter #builtenvironment #interiordesign
https://www.dw.com/en/coffin-flats-epitomize-inequality-in-high-rent-hong-kong/g-71238232
Affordability was calculated based on the housing cost-to-income ratio.
Read more 👉 https://lttr.ai/AaJpI
#DreamRemainsElusive #MiddleClassAmericansToday #HousingAffordability #Live #FacingPersonalStruggles
