{"id":535160,"date":"2026-03-12T08:47:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T08:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/535160\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T08:47:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T08:47:16","slug":"middle-class-australia-is-looking-for-answers-to-this-housing-crisis-this-scheme-reduces-the-deposit-required-by-some-60-per-cent-wa-launches-inquiry-into-land-rent-schemes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/535160\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Middle-class Australia is looking for answers to this housing crisis&#8230; this scheme reduces the deposit required by some 60 per cent&#8221;: WA launches inquiry into Land Rent Schemes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The West Australian Government has announced a new <a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.parliament.wa.gov.au\/Parliament\/commit.nsf\/0\/EEBEAB2159B82A7948258DAA0002AFDB?opendocument&amp;type=sub\" data-component=\"Link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Inquiry into Land Rent Schemes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Put simply, such schemes allow you to own a dwelling, but not the land on which it sits.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Karl Fitzgerald is the Managing Director of Grounded Community Land Trust Advocacy.<\/p>\n<p>He has been invited by the State Government to make a submission to our new inquiry and says it&#8217;s an important option to help us navigate out of the current housing crisis.<\/p>\n<p>He told Oliver Peterson on DRIVE, skyrocketing prices in WA mean lots of people who had good savings before covid &#8220;have been locked out of the home ownership market and are now clogging up the rental market.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This tool helps get those people into more secure accommodation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Listen back as Karl explains how Land Rent Schemes work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The West Australian Government has announced a new Inquiry into Land Rent Schemes. Put simply, such schemes allow&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[250539,265648,64,63,265646,10920,265645,265643,265647,105,104128,265644,3439],"class_list":["post-535160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-102-5fm","tag-abc-perth-drive","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-grounded-community-land-trust-advocacy","tag-housing-crisis","tag-karl-fitzgerald","tag-land-rent-scheme","tag-oliver-peterson","tag-technology","tag-wa-housing","tag-wa-inquiry","tag-western-australia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}