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Australia’s Housing Crisis Has Become A Fierce Political Battle

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We Need A Different Conversation About Australia’s Housing Supply

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Australian Housing Crisis: Full-Time Workers Forced Into Homelessness

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Shock Sum Parents Need To Give Their Kids To Buy First Home

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The Future Of Housing In Australia Is Apartments. Lots And Lots Of Apartments

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We Need A Different Conversation About Australia’s Housing Supply

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Australian Housing Crisis: Full-Time Workers Forced Into Homelessness

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Shock Sum Parents Need To Give Their Kids To Buy First Home

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Australia's Housing Crisis Has Become A Fierce Political Battle
Australia’s Housing Crisis Has Become A Fierce Political Battle
We need a different conversation about Australia’s housing supply
We Need A Different Conversation About Australia’s Housing Supply
Australian housing crisis: Full-time workers forced into homelessness
Australian Housing Crisis: Full-Time Workers Forced Into Homelessness
Shock sum parents need to give their kids to buy first home
Shock Sum Parents Need To Give Their Kids To Buy First Home

‘It’s bleak’: Why you might be struggling to keep pace with rent rises

“It’s pretty bleak. It doesn’t seem anything in the short term will be improving…”
– Westpac senior economist, Matthew Hassan.

Apartment rents across Australia have increased six times faster than wages and house rents have climbed at triple the rate, leaving many tenants struggling to make ends meet.

Median weekly asking rents for apartments in the capital cities rose 22.2 per cent over the year to March, Domain data shows, while wages rose just 3.7 per cent over the year, the latest figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show.

Unit rents increased more than six times faster in Sydney and Melbourne, where the medians jumped by 24 per cent and 23.1 per cent respectively, to $620 and $480 per week.

Median house rents rose 13 per cent across the combined capital cities. Perth had the largest increase at 14.6 per cent, while asking rents rose 10 per cent in Sydney, 11.1 per cent in Melbourne and 12 per cent in Brisbane.

Homelessness Is An Entirely Solvable Problem, Just Ask Finland

Homelessness is a very simple problem that is often over-analyzed. The fact is that there is a group of people who have found themselves (for whatever reason) unable to secure a roof over their heads. Usually, they simply don’t have enough money, because rent is very high and wages are very low, meaning that even if you work full-time it’s extremely hard to afford a small apartment in many cities.

But it’s perfectly possible to simply provide a guaranteed right to housing. This is the approach Finland has taken.

They’re eradicating homelessness through the novel solution of providing housing for people. They took action, and as a result they went from having a substantial homeless population to the point where, by 2020, “practically no-one was sleeping rough on a given night in Finland.”

Read the full article in Current Affairs

Housing Affordability Is Deteriorating and There’s No End In Sight

The latest decision of the RBA to increase the cash rate by 0.25 basis points will further elevate mortgage stress and reduce borrowing capacity for homebuyers across the country.

Released today by the Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre at Curtin University, the ‘Housing Affordability in Western Australia 2023: Building for the future’ report has revealed the alarming extent to which housing affordability in WA has deteriorated in the last two years.

Private sector rents in WA increased by around 13% in the last year alone and rising interest rates have inflated mortgage payments for existing homeowners. Rising house prices, lower borrowing capacity and increased mortgage repayments have negatively affected prospective buyers.

The report shows that the mortgage delinquency rate has more than tripled for new homeowners who took out loans in 2022 compared to those with earlier loan vintages.

Advocates Urge Government to ‘Seriously Consider’ Tiny Homes as Solution to Housing Crisis

Owning a home has always been a dream for Tabatha Wiezczorek, but with the price of housing across much of the country through the roof she’s now looking at something smaller — a tiny home.

Ms Wiezczorek grew up in Newcastle and for a few years she was sleeping rough, unable to afford rent.

“I was homeless, I’d been homeless for about two years,” she said.

“I thought Cessnock was pretty cheap and it wasn’t too far away from Newcastle.”

Ms Wiezczorek decided to relocate to Cessnock, about 50 kilometres west of Newcastle, about 10 years ago.

“When I came out here it was a lot cheaper. It was under $300 a week to rent a three-bedroom house, she said.

“There’s nothing decent here now under $400 a week.”

What Killed the Housing Construction Industry?

Data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics shows that the backlog of residential construction work has blown out to a record $53 billion.

The value of house building work that is yet to be done has risen to $22.8 billion, while the value of apartment construction work in the pipeline has topped $30.7 billion.

Meanwhile, ASIC data shows that nearly 1500 construction companies have shut down since 30 June, putting the year on pace to be the worst in at least ten years.

Earlier this week, the National Housing Finance & Investment Corporation (NHFIC) released its State of the Nation’s Housing report, which forecasts that demand will exceed supply by 124,100 dwellings over the five years to 2028 amid record net overseas migration..

Politics at Heart of Housing Crisis

Australia’s housing crisis isn’t the fault of dodgy developers and greedy landlords, it’s a product of politics and poor leadership.

It might be popular to point fingers at developers and landlords, but this crisis, and it is indeed a crisis, is a socio-political issue that it is up to governments to solve.

Developers aren’t the wicked, greedy sorts they are often made out to be – they are creating a product the same as any other sector of manufacturing. And we don’t expect other businesses to make a loss to solve a policy problem.

Australia Faces Three Housing Crises — What Are They?

A new whitepaper finds that interest rates are not the primary driver of the movement in house prices.

The ongoing housing challenges in Australia are comprised of related but separate crises, according to the latest whitepaper from PEXA Research and LongView.

Putting into perspective the drivers of house prices based on decades worth of data, the whitepaper identified three related housing crises currently happening in Australia: purchase affordability, rental affordability, and rental experience.

PEXA CEO Glenn King said containing the analysis of the housing crisis to just supply-demand arguments would only yield simple solutions that, he believes, would not be enough to work.

“What we have sought to do to is forensically analyse Australia’s unique demographic and urbanisation profile to help explain Australia’s upward trend in house prices over so many decades,” he said.

Continue reading the findings of the whitepaper at yourmortgage.com.au.

Superb Parrots Caught in “Housing Crisis”

Just 0.005% of available tree hollows in Canberra’s woodlands are suitable nesting sites for superb parrots. This “housing crisis” in the bird world may affect the longevity of the species.

A new study by researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) and the ACT Government has found the search for a suitable nesting site can have a big impact on how many offspring the superb parrots are able to produce.

The superb parrot, also known as Barraband’s parrot, is a listed vulnerable species with a small resident population in Canberra.

Previously ANU researchers have shown that these sleek green birds depend on tree hollows for nesting, but that their preferred nest sites are extremely rare.

And if you want to provide a healthy habitat for parrots and other endemic creatures to nest in your own backyard, check out these tips to encourage native species.

 

Boomers, Generation X or Millennials: Who has it worse when it comes to buying a home and paying it off?

When single mum Kerrie Boylett wanted to buy a home in 1995, almost all lenders turned her away.

Ms Boylett is now retired and aged 68, but back then she was 40, and had a nine-year-old daughter.

“It was a lot harder for me to get a loan as a single person and a woman — it was practically impossible,” she tells ABC News.

Ms Boylett eventually convinced one lender to give her a loan. She bought her first home in Coogee, NSW for $150,000, with a deposit of 15 per cent (which she says was based on a decade of her saving).

Her variable interest rate was a massive 19 per cent and her income was low, making it a daily struggle to afford to live.

“It was really hard, really hard — I mean, I remember once I had the electricity cut off for three days,” she recalls.

Read the full article at abc.net.au

More social and affordable housing is the only solution to Australia’s rental crisis

A boost in social housing benefits everyone – people in housing stress get the homes they need and building new homes creates jobs and opportunities

For the first time, Australia is entering the new year with a prime minister who grew up in social housing.

Yet as Australians face a rise in living costs, soaring rents, and crashing vacancy rates, we are also bidding farewell to a key housing affordability measure.

The National Rental Affordability Scheme (NRAS) was designed to help working people who had been priced out of renting, allowing them to create a stable home for themselves and their family.

The scheme wasn’t perfect – it was based on incentives and payments to landlords – but its end will mean thousands of affordable homes will disappear with no plan for the people who were living in them. Renters leaving the scheme will enter a rental market with record low vacancy rates. Data released this week shows a 10% surge in rent prices across capital cities. Many won’t be eligible for social housing, and those who are will find that waiting lists are years long.

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