Brisbane block sizes slashed to 120 square metres under proposed changes
By Ned Hammond
The proposed changes, including to block sizes and car parking requirements, are intended to add an additional 6,000 homes by 2032.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-03/brisbane-zoning-changes-block-size-parking-height/106097212
Woolworths accused of creating 'poor door' at affordable housing development
By Pat McGrath
The retail giant is using development fast-track schemes to push ahead with new supermarket and apartment projects opposed by local councils.
#UrbanDevelopmentandPlanning #HousingPolicy #ConstructionandRealEstateIndustry #StateandTerritoryGovernment #HousingConstructionIndustry #PatMcGrath
Overlooked solution to housing crisis could unlock a million new homes: CEDA
By Samuel Yang
The public policy think tank, CEDA, believes Australia could increase its current housing stock by nine per cent if just one in four standalone homes in the five biggest cities are developed into dual occupancies.
Think you're ready to own a home? Here are the costs to consider
By Widia Jalal
We asked three financial experts about the up-front and ongoing costs of buying a home and for their tips on how to prepare for home ownership.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-29/the-up-front-and-ongoing-costs-of-home-ownership/105984188
#PersonalFinance #CreditandLending #HousingPolicy #Banking #ConsumerProtection #WidiaJalal
Tasmanian government criticised for not signing up to federal housing scheme
By Selina Bryan
Tasmania is the only state or territory which is not joining the federal government's Help to Buy home ownership scheme, which aims to reduce the time it takes home buyers to save for a deposit.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-28/tasmanian-government-federal-housing-scheme/106079386
#HousingPolicy #StateandTerritoryParliament #FederalGovernment #StateandTerritoryGovernment #SelinaBryan
This has been so clear for so long, but at least it is being said my more people in more places.
Waits on housing and renewables may have just gone from years to months
By Jake Evans
Major housing, renewables and mining projects often get bogged down for years by Australia's aging environment laws. Now a deal to rewrite them could change that.
#Environment #FederalGovernment #GovernmentandPolitics #FederalParliament #HousingPolicy #EnvironmentalImpact #EnvironmentalManagement #EnvironmentalPolicy #JakeEvans
'Mind boggling': Tens of thousands of new homes without essential services
By Gavin Coote
Four years after buying a housing plot, the Websters' land is still vacant, without a water or sewer connection, and they have now been told to expect those services by 2028.
Details on Canada’s new housing agency add clarity, expose ‘troubling limitations’: Expert
Housing affordability has been a major concern for many Canadians in recent years, with many observers noting that…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #BuildCanadaHomes #CA #Canada #federalobjectives #housingaffordability #HousingCrisis #housingpolicy #MikeMoffatt #thefederalgovernment
https://www.newsbeep.com/270960/
'Out of reach': Home ownership unaffordable as towns join 'million-dollar club'
By Jacqueline Lynch and Madigan Landry
South-west residents are worried they have been priced out of their home towns after research revealed the region is WA's most expensive area, with nine suburbs now boasting a seven-figure median house price.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-25/south-west-million-dollar-club/106028132
#RegionalDevelopmentandPlanning #HousingPolicy #JacquelineLynch #MadiganLandry
Forget Wall Street, bitcoin and AI. Here's a real Aussie bubble
By Ian Verrender
Amid global warnings of impending financial doom, APRA and the Reserve Bank are far more concerned about a home-grown bubble, one that's been taking in oxygen for almost three decades.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-25/apra-wants-to-deflate-australian-property-bubble/106046326
#Banking #Economy #HousingPolicy #CreditandLending #IanVerrender
Breaking: Nicheliving directors' homes raided by federal police
By Alicia Hanson
Homes are raided and property seized as part of an ongoing investigation into embattled Perth builder Nicheliving.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-24/niche-living-directors-raided-by-asic-afp/106044440
#HousingConstructionIndustry #BusinessEconomicsandFinance #HousingPolicy #AliciaHanson
Children take over court battle after cancer victim dies trying to sell home
By Ashleigh Barraclough
In the last months of her life, Roslyn Grima was fighting in court for the right to sell her home at a tourist park to fund her cancer treatment, but died before that could happen. Now, her children will continue her battle.
Dust buyback scheme in mining town set to close as some residents refuse to leave
By Mietta Adams and Kelly Gudgeon
The West Australian government is hailing its buyback scheme for houses coated in dust in Port Hedland as a success. But with more than 100 homes still not sold back, some residents are not making plans to leave.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-22/port-hedland-dust-buyback-scheme-to-close-in-weeks/106032006
#HousingPolicy #MiningandMetalsIndustry #RegionalCommunities #MiettaAdams #KellyGudgeon
Housing Dept tried to evict DV victim after noise complaints related to abuse
By Cason Ho
A mother who was facing eviction from her social housing home after complaints from neighbours will be allowed to stay, after a court finds the incidents mostly stemmed from her domestic violence abuse.
#DomesticViolence #Courts #HousingPolicy #Homelessness #Police #FamilyandRelationships #CasonHo
"policymakers on both sides of the aisle have over the last several decades taken decisions that favoured the largest market participants. These big lenders and builders have sometimes created artificial scarcity designed to bolster profits rather than increase the actual number of homes being built."
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"New Deal policies favoured smaller lenders, who were legally required to channel local deposits into local homebuilding. "
#housingPolicy
https://www.ft.com/content/242f5e5c-0918-4645-8e61-5727656069f3
Child poverty, homelessness hit new highs in mining-rich WA
By Daryna Zadvirna
Rates of child poverty in WA have doubled in a decade, but there is a severe lack of crisis accommodation, prompting experts to call on governments to do more.
#Homelessness #Poverty #Welfare #HousingPolicy #Teenagers #Children #FamilyandRelationships #CommunityOrganisations #DarynaZadvirna
High-density housing to transform Perth suburbs, as plans to cut red tape flagged
By Phoebe Pin
Western Australians must shake off their aversion to apartment living and embrace high-density housing solutions to support population growth across the metropolitan area, the state government says.
#HousingPolicy #UrbanDevelopmentandPlanning #StateandTerritoryGovernment #LocalGovernment #PhoebePin
Property investors say they're 'boosting rental supply', but there's a catch
By Gareth Hutchens
Are they boosting the supply of rental housing by financing the construction of new dwellings, or buying pre-existing owner-occupied homes and converting them to rentals?
#HousingPolicy #CreditandLending #PropertyPrices #PersonalInvesting #BusinessEconomicsandFinance #GarethHutchens
