Australia’s growing cohort of tenants fear they will rent forever https://www.byteseu.com/924869/ #Australia #election #FederalElection #FederalGovernment #ForeverRenters #Housing #HousingPolicy #landlords #LongerLeases #NewSouthWales #Queensland #RentCaps #RentalStress #rentals #RenterRights #renting #Switzerland #tenants #Victoria
https://www.europesays.com/1998460/ Australia’s growing cohort of tenants fear they will rent forever #australia #election #FederalElection #FederalGovernment #ForeverRenters #housing #HousingPolicy #Landlords #LongerLeases #NewSouthWales #queensland #RentCaps #RentalStress #rentals #RenterRights #renting #switzerland #tenants #victoria
Day 16 Invest 
Rent 
“The #PM is asked how Labor's announcements will affect #Australians who already own one home, but are looking at #purchasing a second.
It's simple, the PM says — #houses will be #cheaper.
"If you increase supply, you assist everyone because you have an impact on #
affordability," he says.”
If you’re a first home buyer, if you want to buy a home but they’re too expensive, Labor does not give a 
#AusPol / #AnthonyAlbanese / #Labor / #HousingPolicy / #FirstHomeBuyer <https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-14/federal-election-live-2025-updates-albanese-dutton-campaign-news/105172762#live-blog-post-169134>
Australians: We can't find somewhere affordable to rent. We need help!
Labor and Coalition: Were going to (again) distort the housing market by giving more money to First Home Buyers™ which (again) will have the effect of raising house prices and hence rent for everyone else.
Australians: FFS.
Brisbane mayor vows to evict homeless campers within 24 hours
By Kenji Sato and Craig Zonca and Loretta Ryan
The decision was made after the City of Moreton Bay made homeless camping a crime on public land, with the Brisbane mayor saying the city can no longer take a "compassionate and flexible approach".
Atlas survived homelessness — now they want a fairer shot at housing
By Nate Woodall
A coalition of more than 160 organisations launches a national campaign urging politicians to do more to give young people facing homelessness a fairer shot at housing.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-07/youth-homelessness-housing-crisis-victoria/105012206
Non-family households in South Korea have increased 2.5 times over eight years, prompting calls for inclusive housing policies to address their marginalization in current frameworks based on traditional family concepts.
#YonhapInfomax #NonFamilyHouseholds #HousingPolicy #ResidentialUnit #PublicRentalHousing #CoResidenceContracts #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=53026
The Victorian state government wants to redevelop the car park at Footscray Station into apartments.
This would be a great use of that land which is on a lovely street right next to the station and removing the car parking would improve the surrounding streets.
#footscray #melbourne #HousingPolicy #vicpol
https://engage.vic.gov.au/planning-for-a-new-housing-development-on-transport-land-at-footscray
Growing calls to support ex-prisoners battling homelessness
By Jacqueline Lynch
Former prisoners like Murray Strawbridge are one of the fastest-growing cohorts facing homelessness in Australia, and advocates say it's increasing their likelihood of reoffending.
Raven's 10 Policy Platform for Good Governance in 2025, Independent of the Country:
1. Every citizen and documented immigrant should be guaranteed and be able to expect the government to do it's best to represent their needs and best interests as best as it possibly can to enable to maximum health, fulfillment, and enjoyment in life.
2. Universal Single Payer Healthcare, free at the point of service for all citizens and documented immigrants, and a buy in option for undocumented immigrants and visitors. (Basically Bernie Sander's Medicare For All Proposal)
3. Housing For All, make it free for all citizens and documented immigrants, and a right for them. Undocumented immigrants and visitors would need to pay for housing or seek temporary residence shelter status. (Closest to Cuba's housing model)
4. Free Public Transportation, free for all citizens and documented immigrants, undocumented immigrants and visitors can buy in, privatized and privatization of public transportation would be illegal.
5. Disabled Inclusion and Equity, Disabled citizens and documented immigrants have a right to self determination and independence so long as a group of 10 physicians and judge via a court ruling or criminal trial waiver as a result of insanity determine otherwise. Treatment of disabilities must be inline with best efforts and good faith to both improve the quality of the disabled citizen or documented immigrant's life and their health. Disabled citizens and documented immigrants who cannot provide the means of living for themselves will be cared for.
6. LGBTQ Rights, any number of people who can and do consent to a sexual, romantic, and/or marriage based relationship should have the right to do so and all the same amenities and legal affordances that any monogamous cisgendered heterosexual couple would have.
7. Free Universal Education, all education is free for citizens and documented immigrants: free tuition, free learning materials, free textbooks, and free basic needs. When you are a full time student, your job should be to learn. Getting into college and higher education is enough. This would ban the employment of students in full time attendance to any educational institution. Undocumented immigrants by being accepted to a specialty lower education institution or a higher educational institution of any type should be granted documentation and legal residency. Programs should be made to entice these immigrants to become citizens and stay after receiving their education.
8. Birth Right Citizenship, if you are born within a nation's borders, you should be entitled to citizenship of that nation.
9. Citizenship By Heritage, one ancestor of pure heritage or of citizenship of the land in the last 5 generations Can be done with birth records, adoption paperwork, or reputable DNA testing results.
10. Citizenship By Immigration & Assimilation, documented immigrants should be encouraged to assimilate, this should be done through free language courses and certifications and free culture courses and certifications. The formation of ethnic enclaves by immigrants should be fiercely discouraged, but families and friends must never be separated to achieve this goal. Voluntary sublimation of the immigrant population into the predominant and preexisting culture is the ultimate goal. Prospective immigrants without a criminal records and/or who are dodging the draft or oppression of any enemy nation and/or who are the victims of genocide(s) abroad, must be prioritized. Prospective immigrants personal finances should not matter in the immigration process. Becoming a documented immigrant should be simple and sensible and follow these guidelines.
After two years and many hours, the first results of the project that made me think that I would actually like to spend the next 5 years doing a PhD on the topic are finally out!
If you are interested in housing policy and young adults and understand Swedish, you can already check out the Policy Brief we shared on Formas' website just before the holidays:
Bra att se en partiledare som förstår betydelsen av en riktig svensk nationell bostadspolitik! Nu hoppas jag bara att andra från andra partier ska följa med! #housing #HousingPolicy
https://www.dagensarena.se/innehall/det-ska-bli-ett-paradigmskifte-i-bostadspolitiken/
And please may new housing be informed by #ClimateLiteracy! Thermal regulation, solar power, designed around active travel and public transport links, away from flood plains - we'd all be better off #HousingPolicy
https://news.sky.com/story/raise-funding-for-social-homes-or-fail-to-meet-building-targets-housing-sector-warns-government-13241108
Imagine if we taxed land instead of incomes.
Phoar!
From what I've been reading, it seems the Greens' demands to support Labor's housing legislation is focussing on Capital Gains Tax and Negative Gearing. If that is indeed the case, then my question is: why don't the Greens spend their energy on convincing the electorate that the LNP dogmatic support for Capital Gains and Negative Gearing Tax regimes is harmful to society instead of wasting everyone's time trying to convince Labor (who have lost two elections because of proposed reforms of these two taxes) to cut these tax incentives before supporting Labor's housing policies.
It looks to me that the Green's strategic focus shows a propencity to fight for political relevance by badggering a sitting Govt (they do not need to IMO) rather than facilitate a progressive agenda.
In case I've raised some hackles, I would have thought that the surest way for the Greens to boost their electoral relevance is to garner more electoral support by stealing Labor's Left (they're hardly going to steal votes from the LNP camp as long as there are IND running). And you don't do that by appearing to be the 'bad apples' in the bunch of lefties trying to push a more progressive agenda.
#Ithaca will likely pass the Good Cause Eviction tenant protection on July 10.
I made a video and did a little write-up here.
#Housing #HousingPolicy #TenantsRights
https://striking-distance.com/happenings/ithaca-ny-considers-good-cause-eviction-housing-policy
Fellow housing researchers, there's a PhD position being advertised at the Uni of Amsterdam looking at the Political Economy of Housing, Financial Policy, and Climate Adaptation. Deadline 6 September 2024!
(Am not related, just sharing, see the page for info and contact)
No they didn't look like #SozialWohnungen (social housing).
Our city-quarter is more like #EigentumsWohnungen (flats for sale). Really, really expensive ones.
Besides, we don't need the #Nazis in #Germany to do the most fucked up #HousingPolicy imaginable.
A very grand Coalition of (almost) all parties in parliament is doing that already.
'When I look back on #14YearsOfToryRule, there is one awful #HousingPolicy that stands out
Holding down benefit rates has sent #homelessness soaring and led to an exodus of poorer people from our cities
In this series we look at several #ConservativePolicy decisions since 2010 that may have been forgotten, but which have had a profound effect on life in Britain'
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/05/14-years-tory-housing-benefit-homelessness-poor-cities
#ToryPoliciesInAction #DegradingBritain #GE2024
I've worked in the Homelessness Services sector in the USA for about 8 years but I've only recently really started to read up on how other countries are responding to their homelessness. The differences are striking but simple, and yet still too subtle for most people to really understand. I hope I'll be able to use mastodon as a platform to write about the differences and what the USA NEEDS TO DO to solve homelessness.
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