Posts tagged "housing crisis"

There are steps the federal government can take to make our migration system more attractive to skilled trades workers.

You visit a village that looks lovely at first glance. But almost every house is a holiday house, and there’s not enough year-round demand to sustain anything other than the convenience store at the local servo.

Airbnb is not against the user-pay levy but was pushing for a rate of three to five percent.

An attack on Airbnb might win some headlines, but it won’t do much to mitigate the real causes of Victoria’s rental crisis. 

Jurisdictions will be offered $15,000 for each new home they build, from $3 billion in federal funding for 200,000 new dwellings to tackle the housing crisis.

When landlords “host” tourists rather than residents, housing supply is depleted, rents rise and neighbourhoods change — and the housing crisis deepens.