Australian investors back CGT reform as data reveals $19bn windfall
An Australian investor has warned the housing market has become the country’s “national sport”, as new data reveals…
No longer true that the rich keep getting richer as the poor get poorer
Recent data confirms current policies are gradually reversing Australia’s chronic inequality, as Alan Austin reports. THE SALARY OF…
Court rules WA Housing Authority does not owe consumer guarantee to tenants
A woman who claimed her state-provided home was unsafe and the rent was excessive has lost her bid…
Public housing tenant blocked from own backyard, as disability advocates say accessibility an ‘afterthought’
For two years and four months, Sharryn Johns has felt robbed of her freedom. But when she first…
Disabled Broome man evicted from public housing after brother’s death
A disabled man in Western Australia’s far north is facing homelessness after discovering he was not on the…
Concerns domestic tenants required to share excessive personal data to secure leases
Tenants are being forced to hand over excessive personal data when applying for rental properties, with new research…
Architect Liu Thai Ker, Singapore’s first master planner, dies at 87
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): The architect who shaped the landscape of modern Singapore, Dr Liu Thai Ker, has…
Could modular and prefabricated homes be the key to solving the ACT’s housing crisis?
Modular and prefabricated homes could be used for public housing in Canberra to help “scale up” the local…
Public housing residents in Roebourne swelter through heatwave
In the first week of summer, the Pilbara community of Roebourne has already endured a severe seven-day heatwave…
Queensland family living in a tent in Bundaberg say they’re not considered homeless
A regional Queensland family leasing a powered tent site at a caravan park has been told it is…
Will Labor’s housing fund recover from its rocky start and fix decades of decline?
It sounded easy enough. Labor would set up a $10 billion fund to build homes for people in…
Addressing Australia’s housing crisis is a mammoth task. Is making housing a human right the answer?
It’s never been done in Australia before — enshrining housing as a human right. But it’s a concept…