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Labor has not announced a single extra cent of housing funding today - Greens say plan is ‘fake’ and a ‘disaster’
May 11, 2024
Today Labor has repackaged a Morrison housing and homelessness agreement, while announcing the $1 billion the Greens secured for social housing in HAFF negotiations and pretended both are new. Under the current National...
Read More ShareRenters set to cop another $5 billion in increases this year
May 09, 2024
New analysis of CPI data by the Parliamentary Library has shown that if a rent freeze were implemented when the Greens first called for one in 2022, renters across the country would have saved...
Read More ShareGreens challenge Labor to get serious about womens’ safety and double National Housing and Homelessness Agreement funding in upcoming budget
May 05, 2024
With the current National Housing and Homelessness Agreement due to expire in June, the Greens have called on the Federal Government to double National Housing and Homelessness Agreement funding to $3.6 billion a year,...
Read More ShareHousing Affordability Council confirms Australia has one of the most broken housing systems in the world
May 03, 2024
The National Housing Supply and Affordability Council’s first “State of the Housing System” report lays bare the catastrophic failure of both Labor and the Liberals when it comes to housing. The government’s own report says Australia...
Read More ShareGovernment's Help to Buy Scheme will increase house prices as experts call for changes to NG & CGT
April 18, 2024
The Greens have slammed the government for failing to model how much their critically panned ‘housing lottery’ will raise the price of homes, saying Labor was ‘irresponsible’ for failing to even ask about the...
Read More ShareData shows Australia has a $164,000 wall in the way of homeownership: say Greens
March 21, 2024
Analysis done by the Parliamentary Library using Core Logic and ABS data has shown that across Australia the annual income needed to purchase a house and not be in housing stress is $164,400 -...
Read More SharePublic property developer would save renters and first home buyers thousands of dollars, under Greens plan
March 06, 2024
Public property developer would save renters and first home buyers thousands of dollars, under Greens plan EMBARGOED to 10:00pm, Tuesday March 5 On Wednesday at the National Press Club, Greens spokesperson for Housing and...
Read More ShareGreens to vote against Labor’s housing lottery this week
February 26, 2024
Australian Greens MPs in the House of Representatives will vote against Labor’s ‘Help To Buy’ scheme - a narrow housing lottery that will push up prices for 99.8% of people - saying the...
Read More ShareNegative gearing, CGT discounts in Help To Buy firing line as Greens say system stacked against renters and first home buyers
February 12, 2024
The Greens will demand significant changes to Negative Gearing and the Capital Gains Tax Discount in negotiations on the government’s ‘Help to Buy’ bill currently before the Parliament, saying that Labor’s ‘housing lottery’ will...
Read More ShareRenters pay a house deposit worth of rent every 5 years
October 31, 2023
Using ABS data, Parliamentary Library analysis has shown that the average renter has paid $106,550 per household over the past five years, or $240,3 billion in total rent paid from 2019-2023. Meanwhile, over the...
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