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Queensland set to pass new laws scrapping stamp duty for first home buyers purchasing new builds

First home buyers purchasing a new build will no longer need to pay stamp duty under new laws set to…

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Australia building half as many homes for every hour worked compared with 30 years ago, Productivity Commission finds

‘Decades of poor performance’ in dwelling construction is contributing to the housing affordability crisis, report says. The Australian housing construction…

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A Productivity Commission report says even with a ‘value-added’ measure that factors in improvements in quality and housing size, construction productivity has still declined by 12%. Photograph: Mike Bowers

Urban planners say community consultation system blocks affordable housing

Urban planners say Australia’s community consultation system is worsening the country’s housing crisis. Economist Peter Tulip says community consultations have…

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These Wakerley residents say the community was not consulted enough on a 44-unit affordable housing project. (Photo: Kenji Sato, ABC)

Australia’s housing crisis is driven by lip-service, hypocrisy and an investment culture

House prices never fall very much in Australia. Even in the recessions of 1982 and 1991 they only fell 6.2…

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Alan Kohler: Housing crisis explained

From the sublime to the cringeworthy: Tim Ross on Australia’s housing dream (and nightmare)

The presenter and comedian’s live show feeds his obsession with the nation’s post-second world war suburban architecture ‘The government basically…

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Tim Ross, Photograph: Caroline McCredie

Pre-built houses you can move into in 12 weeks come to Australia in bid to make home ownership more affordable

Renters struggling with the cost of living crisis will soon be able to buy prefabricated homes and have them up…

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Housing Minister Clare O'Neil speaking on 7 News
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Construction starts on inner-city social housing high-rise project

A social housing project delivering 32 apartments in a nine-storey development at Woolloongabba is underway. Construction starts next week on…

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Welcome to the world of renters by choice — the tenants turning their back on home ownership

The private rental sector has expanded at more than twice the rate of the increase in Australian households in the…

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‘Having to ask for somewhere to live, it’s difficult indeed’: Single, female, homeless. Australia’s shameful crisis

Older women are the fastest-growing cohort of homeless people in Australia today. And for many, it’s an unexpected life shock…

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The homelessness crisis affecting Australia’s older women

‘Having to ask for somewhere to live, it’s difficult indeed’: Single, female, homeless. Australia’s shameful crisis. Older women are the…

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Apartments at Robina to tackle city’s disability housing crisis

APARTMENTS are being built at Robina to tackle the city’s disability housing crisis and get young people out of aged…

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Classical music still an unwelcome lullaby for Brisbane’s homeless

Brisbane City Council’s use of loud music to move on rough sleepers in public spaces such as King George Square…

Families receive food at the Los Angles Mission homeless shelter in December 2019. Photograph: Christian Monterrosa/EP
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US homeless student population reaches 1.5m, the highest in a decade

The number of public school students experiencing homelessness in the US has increased 15% in the past three years, reaching…

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Berlin Freezes Rents for 5 Years in a Bid to Slow Gentrification

Rental prices on more than 1.5 million Berlin apartments will be frozen or lowered for five years as a result…

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