Though it is generally believed a minor miracle would be needed to rescue the Morrison government, the Coalition judges the best way to “save furniture” is to wave the fear flags.
The losers from Labor’s capital gains tax policy aren’t all where you would expect them to be, whatever you expect.
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At times we are told Labor's capital gains tax policy will hit mainly high earners. At other times, low earners. The truth, uncovered by our microsimulation model, tells us something about ourselves.
Labor would work with community housing providers, the residential construction sector and institutional investors.
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In his Sunday announcement, Shorten says the ALP’s ten-year plan to build 250,000 houses and units would be Australia’s “biggest ever investment in affordable housing”.
Whether there is a floor beneath which cuts in interest rate are ineffective depends in part on house prices.
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It is thought that it doesn't help much to cut official interest rates toward or beyond zero, and maybe it doesn't, but new research suggests the answer has a lot to do with the housing market.
Gradually reducing stamp duty and negative gearing would minimise the impact on investors.
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Housing affordability has declined significantly over the past few decades. Slowly reducing negative gearing and capital gains, and switching to property taxes, could reverse this trend.
The Greens plan would bring in "a Buffett rule" to ensure higher income earners paid their fair share of tax by limiting deductions made by those earning more than $300,000.
Older and poorer Australians aren’t benefiting from negative gearing.
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New modelling shows negative gearing and capital gains taxes can be reformed in a way that doesn't impact poorer investors.
Chris Bowen says that failure to reform negative gearing and family trusts will put increasing tax pressure on low- and middle-income earners.
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Chris Bowen will target tax loopholes and concessions in a speech on Monday.
Over the past year, there has been a surge of enthusiasm in Australia for developing a sector of large-scale institutional landlords.
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There is a risk that affordable housing policy may be colonised by for-profit interests if Australia imports the wrong rental housing ideas from overseas.
‘Build to rent’ means developers build housing with the intent of retaining the building and renting it out to lower-income families.
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A modest rebalancing of federal tax policy toward build-to-rent housing could fill affordable housing funding gaps. Australian funds are already investing in such a scheme in the US.
The latest ANUpoll shows that Australians are very concerned that future generations may be locked out of home ownership.
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Housing experts writing for The Conversation largely agree on the government policies that are causing negative distortions in the market and the wider economy. And supply is not the key concern.
Scott Morrison says the response on housing must be comprehensive.
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Scott Morrison will renew his warnings against tampering with negative gearing, in a speech on Monday.
APRA chairman Wayne Byres is leading a crackdown on interest-only loans, but it may not be enough to cool some parts of the housing market.
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Negative gearing plus inadequate supply plus low wage growth equals financial distress.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian needs to shed the Treasury view of housing construction as a silver bullet and back former premier Mike Baird’s social and affordable housing program.
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The new NSW premier is right to identify housing affordability as a priority for the people and economy of Sydney. It's not just housing supply that's the problem – action is needed on many fronts.
The increasing proportion of children living in housing-related poverty confronts us with the question: what will we do about it?
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Many children are living in low-income families that struggle to pay the rent to keep a roof over their heads. Unaffordable housing is fuelling childhood poverty, so where is the policy response?
In the unregulated Australian rental housing market, rental leases are almost always short term.
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Federal treasurer Scott Morrison’s diagnosis of the risks and challenges confronting the Australian economy is hard to fault. But tackling those problems will require flexibility from the government.