Housing
Alternative labels
Residential building
Dwellings
Housing strategy
Policy
Ending capital gains tax discounts
The Greens plan would phase out the CGT discount by 10% each year from 1 July 2016 until there was no longer any discount from 1 July 2020. The Parliamentary Budget Office costings show this measure, combined with our proposal to phase out negative gearing, would generate $7 billion over forward estimates, and $119.5 billion...
Policy
Positive plan on housing affordability - capital gains tax reform
Working and middle class families are increasingly being priced out of the housing market. Ownership rates for young people aged 25-34 have spiralled downwards in recent years from 60% to 48%. Young people are being forced to take on levels of debt unimaginable just a few decades ago.
Journal article
Cuts both ways: tenants’ rights and the double-sided consequences of ‘secure tenure’ in remote Aboriginal communities
On 7 February 2016, public housing tenants from the remote Aboriginal community of Santa Teresa in the Northern Territory commenced unprecedented legal action against the CEO of the Northern Territory Department of Housing in an attempt to address the poor state of housing in their community.
Journal article
The quasi-market approach: the answer for social housing in New Zealand?
One of the major current policy initiatives of the New Zealand government is the introduction of the quasi-market approach for the delivery of social housing under the Social Housing Reform Programme. The Social Housing Reform Programme seeks to increase the participation of third-party not-for-profit community housing providers in delivering social housing in competition with Housing...
Report
Planning and designing healthy new communities: Selandra Rise
Selandra Rise is a new housing development located in Melbourne’s south-east growth corridor, where residents have bought land and built new houses over a period of several years. This research project aimed to discover how design and planning of a new residential community could improve the health and wellbeing of residents. Developed through a VicHealth...