‘Everything is on the table’ as Vic promises housing policy shakeup

The Age first reported that a senior government source, speaking anonymously, disclosed that discussions have involved a proposal to limit landlords to one rent increase every two years, up from 12 months. The measures may also stipulate a maximum percentage that rent can be raised. Speaking to journalists on Sunday, 23 July, Mr Andrews said that “everything is on the table”, with regard to the housing measures the state was considering.

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Fiona Martin is a typical landlord – but she’s not what you expect

Fiona Martin and her children live in a rented home that she can’t afford to buy. Luckily, her rent is subsidised by income from a modest investment property she is paying off. While Australian landlords are often portrayed as affluent aristocrats, Martin is more typical of the more than 80 per cent of the rental market owned by individuals, or “mum and dad investors”, says Australian Landlords Association president Andrew Kent.

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Affordable and community housing takes out UDIA’s Project of the Year Award

UDIA (SA) Awards for Excellence saw community housing provider Junction take home four of the twelve project awards, including Project of the Year for Clifton Park, a mixed housing development delivered in partnership with the South Australian Housing Authority.

The annual awards recognise innovation and excellence in development across the scope of each project, and reflect the industry’s contribution to liveability in this state.

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Unaffordable housing – it’s the politics, stupid!

Australia remains stubbornly indifferent to the increasingly harsh conditions of our fellow homeless citizens, our hapless next generation, and the very real economic costs of our indifference, preferring instead to enjoy the benefits of wealth and lifestyle conferred by our stubborn inaction – pour us another chardy please…

Introduced in The Fifth Estate, the highly respected Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) recently released its wide-ranging report, Towards an Australian Housing and Homelessness Strategy. In addition to its explicit recommendations, there are three implicit features of the report that warrant further elaboration in this discussion.

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Vic towns with creative staff housing solutions look for share of new regional worker accommodation fund

Much of Port Fairy’s housing is reserved as tourist accommodation. When housing shortages made it difficult to attract and retain workers in regional Victorian tourist towns, businesses and councils had to get creative.

In places like Daylesford and Port Fairy, where as many as a third of all houses are holiday homes, hospitality businesses have been closing or adjusting opening hours due to a worker shortage exacerbated by a lack of rentable properties.

But now that the Victorian government is offering a $150 million regional worker accommodation package as a sweetener for cancelling the Commonwealth Games, those forward-thinkers are wondering if they will secure a share.

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Making Progress: Victoria’s Big Build Passes Halfway Mark

The Victorian government is making progress on a $63 million social housing project just as getting a home officially becomes harder than ever. The 130-home Heidelberg West development is a mix of social and affordable housing to replace 60 homes no longer fit for purpose.

Despite these efforts in Victoria, and across the country, getting a rental or buying a new home is increasingly difficult. New research from AHURI revealed homeownership for people born in the late 1980s was significantly less than for first homebuyers born in previous decades.

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‘Do better’ on affordable housing, NSW government urged, as development exposes low commitment

'Do better' on affordable housing, NSW government urged, as Appin development exposes low commitment

Almost 13,000 homes have been promised in one of NSW’s largest new housing developments. The NSW government is being urged to ‘do better’ by increasing the number of affordable homes in one of the state’s biggest development projects on the outskirts of south-western Sydney.

Of the 13,000 new homes promised at Appin, only 187 are required to be affordable housing. An advocacy group says the development’s 5 per cent affordable housing target is “extremely disappointing”. Additional social and affordable housing may be secured during future State Planning Agreement negotiations.

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