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  1. Landlord exodus fears as Aussie property market braces for tax changes: ‘Rarely accidental’

    Tax reform for property investors is firmly on the table ahead of budget night. (Source: Getty) · Getty…
    #NewsBeep #News #Australia #AU #CGT #discount #housingaffordability #housingsupply #investments #negativegearing #propertyinvestors #tax #taxincentives #taxreform
    newsbeep.com/au/572614/

  2. Landlord exodus fears as Aussie property market braces for tax changes: ‘Rarely accidental’

    Tax reform for property investors is firmly on the table ahead of budget night. (Source: Getty) · Getty…
    #NewsBeep #News #Australia #AU #CGT #discount #housingaffordability #housingsupply #investments #negativegearing #propertyinvestors #tax #taxincentives #taxreform
    newsbeep.com/au/572614/

  3. Today, my membership cancellation has been processed by the NSW Branch of the #Labor Party (#NSWLabor). It no longer represents me, nor many thousands of others I’m sure, and has used up all the loyalty and trust I once had invested in it.

    From now on my membership fees and any donation I might have made to the Party will be directed elsewhere (not a political party), to where I think will help #Australia get back on track to #SocialDemocracy where the benefits equally flow to all Australians and not just the #ChoosenFew. As for my vote, it will have to earn it back.

    #Poverty is a political choice
    #HousingAffordability is a political choice
    #CivicLiberties are a political choice
    #EquityDiversityInclusion are a political choice
    #WealthDistribution is a political choice
    #CostOfLiving is a political choice

    There is no getting away from #politics nor our civic duty to make sound political choices for all of us living, on this stollen land, on the great #SouthernLand.

    #Antifa #TaxTheRich #AusPol

  4. They're talking about government-mandated #RentControl. The article doesn't mention it, because #jermalisms, but we have it in #Canberra. My #rent went up $5/week last year; were we still in #Brisbane, we'd be paying exactly twice what we were five years ago.

    We don't have a #HousingAffordability problem in #Australia—we have a politician problem. There's simply no political will at state or federal levels to rein landlords in.

    #poverty #housing #CostOfLiving #meeja social.chinwag.org/@sbs_bot/11

  5. Regional housing markets outpacing capitals

    Selling conditions were tightest in Western Australia and Queensland, where median time on market was 20 and 24…
    #NewsBeep #News #Australia #AU #cotality #housingaffordability #regionalAustralia
    newsbeep.com/au/488921/

  6. What housing crisis? For most, there isn’t one – but look how the other third live
    smh.com.au/national/what-housi

    This article by Dr Kate Shaw, an urban geographer at the University of Melbourne, correctly identifies the root cause of the housing problem in Australia: people treating land and housing as investment vehicles, and extracting as much financial return from them as possible in rent or at sale. On top of that, governments keep offering tax incentives (such as negative gearing) to investors, which encourages buying and selling churn.

    Dr Shaw also demolishes the myth of housing affordability being a problem of supply-shortage. She shows how a simplistic increase in supply will only worsen the problem for people who want to buy a home to live in, and encourage property developers and property speculators to worsen the iniquitous housing market. Dr Shaw writes:

    "Here’s the thing: no amount of increase in density or market-rate housing supply will reduce prices. Nor do governments and most Australians want it to. The market will continue to produce housing that generates profit for its developers and owners, and prices will continue to rise. So let’s do away with the conceit that an increase in supply will increase affordability. It will not."

    #AusPol #HousingCrisis #NegativeGearing #HousingAffordability #CostOfLivingCrisis

  7. #California Gov #Newsom signs #ScottWiener bill to bulldoze over opposition to expansion of #housing density and residential construction projects along key rail transit corridors.

    New #Yimby law "Abundant & Affordable Homes Near Transit Act" (#SB79) creates less restrictive state #zoning codes, limits options for those seeking to stall plans, restrict density or halt new housing near transit stations.

    Opposition to legislation included exburb #NIMBY #realestate investors who fear #construction of potential seven story condo bldgs near rail transit corridors that would destroy perception of aesthetic quaintness of #suburbs like Burlingame, or Petaluma etc.

    Earlier this summer #GovNewsom signed similarly YIMBY-backed #legislation to exempt most urban apartment projects from #CEQA reviews, the state’s signature environmental protection law. “Go YIMBYs,” Newsom said when signing that bill into law.

    The state's "housing crisis" conditions in which distinct lack of rental unit availability, and #Prop13 tax measure after effects etc, have all spiked the price of basic housing options, and put vast swaths of not particularly exceptional suburbs amongst the nation's highest priced #realestate markets.

    “In California we talk a lot about where we don’t want to build #homes, but rarely do we talk about where we do—until now,” said law sponsoring state senator Wiener in a statement about his fourth in a decade long attempt to get similar laws passed. “SB 79 unwinds decades of overly restrictive policies that have driven housing costs to astronomical levels, forcing millions of people away from #jobs and #transit and into long commutes from the #suburbs or out of the state entirely. It has been a long road to tackling these decades-old problems, but today’s signing marks a new day for #AffordableHousing in California.”

    calmatters.org/housing/2025/10

    berkeleyside.org/2025/10/10/ca

    bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/n

    laist.com/news/housing-homeles

    calmatters.org/housing/2025/09 #UpZoning #Development #WeinerWorld #HousingAffordability

  8. #California Gov #Newsom signs #ScottWiener bill to bulldoze over opposition to expansion of #housing density and residential construction projects along key rail transit corridors.

    New #Yimby law "Abundant & Affordable Homes Near Transit Act" (#SB79) creates less restrictive state #zoning codes, limits options for those seeking to stall plans, restrict density or halt new housing near transit stations.

    Opposition to legislation included exburb #NIMBY #realestate investors who fear #construction of potential seven story condo bldgs near rail transit corridors that would destroy perception of aesthetic quaintness of #suburbs like Burlingame, or Petaluma etc.

    Earlier this summer #GovNewsom signed similarly YIMBY-backed #legislation to exempt most urban apartment projects from #CEQA reviews, the state’s signature environmental protection law. “Go YIMBYs,” Newsom said when signing that bill into law.

    The state's "housing crisis" conditions in which distinct lack of rental unit availability, and #Prop13 tax measure after effects etc, have all spiked the price of basic housing options, and put vast swaths of not particularly exceptional suburbs amongst the nation's highest priced #realestate markets.

    “In California we talk a lot about where we don’t want to build #homes, but rarely do we talk about where we do—until now,” said law sponsoring state senator Wiener in a statement about his fourth in a decade long attempt to get similar laws passed. “SB 79 unwinds decades of overly restrictive policies that have driven housing costs to astronomical levels, forcing millions of people away from #jobs and #transit and into long commutes from the #suburbs or out of the state entirely. It has been a long road to tackling these decades-old problems, but today’s signing marks a new day for #AffordableHousing in California.”

    calmatters.org/housing/2025/10

    berkeleyside.org/2025/10/10/ca

    bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/n

    laist.com/news/housing-homeles

    calmatters.org/housing/2025/09 #UpZoning #Development #WeinerWorld #HousingAffordability

  9. #California Gov #Newsom signs #ScottWiener bill to bulldoze over opposition to expansion of #housing density and residential construction projects along key rail transit corridors.

    New #Yimby law "Abundant & Affordable Homes Near Transit Act" (#SB79) creates less restrictive state #zoning codes, limits options for those seeking to stall plans, restrict density or halt new housing near transit stations.

    Opposition to legislation included exburb #NIMBY #realestate investors who fear #construction of potential seven story condo bldgs near rail transit corridors that would destroy perception of aesthetic quaintness of #suburbs like Burlingame, or Petaluma etc.

    Earlier this summer #GovNewsom signed similarly YIMBY-backed #legislation to exempt most urban apartment projects from #CEQA reviews, the state’s signature environmental protection law. “Go YIMBYs,” Newsom said when signing that bill into law.

    The state's "housing crisis" conditions in which distinct lack of rental unit availability, and #Prop13 tax measure after effects etc, have all spiked the price of basic housing options, and put vast swaths of not particularly exceptional suburbs amongst the nation's highest priced #realestate markets.

    “In California we talk a lot about where we don’t want to build #homes, but rarely do we talk about where we do—until now,” said law sponsoring state senator Wiener in a statement about his fourth in a decade long attempt to get similar laws passed. “SB 79 unwinds decades of overly restrictive policies that have driven housing costs to astronomical levels, forcing millions of people away from #jobs and #transit and into long commutes from the #suburbs or out of the state entirely. It has been a long road to tackling these decades-old problems, but today’s signing marks a new day for #AffordableHousing in California.”

    calmatters.org/housing/2025/10

    berkeleyside.org/2025/10/10/ca

    bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/n

    laist.com/news/housing-homeles

    calmatters.org/housing/2025/09 #UpZoning #Development #WeinerWorld #HousingAffordability

  10. #California Gov #Newsom signs #ScottWiener bill to bulldoze over opposition to expansion of #housing density and residential construction projects along key rail transit corridors.

    New #Yimby law "Abundant & Affordable Homes Near Transit Act" (#SB79) creates less restrictive state #zoning codes, limits options for those seeking to stall plans, restrict density or halt new housing near transit stations.

    Opposition to legislation included exburb #NIMBY #realestate investors who fear #construction of potential seven story condo bldgs near rail transit corridors that would destroy perception of aesthetic quaintness of #suburbs like Burlingame, or Petaluma etc.

    Earlier this summer #GovNewsom signed similarly YIMBY-backed #legislation to exempt most urban apartment projects from #CEQA reviews, the state’s signature environmental protection law. “Go YIMBYs,” Newsom said when signing that bill into law.

    The state's "housing crisis" conditions in which distinct lack of rental unit availability, and #Prop13 tax measure after effects etc, have all spiked the price of basic housing options, and put vast swaths of not particularly exceptional suburbs amongst the nation's highest priced #realestate markets.

    “In California we talk a lot about where we don’t want to build #homes, but rarely do we talk about where we do—until now,” said law sponsoring state senator Wiener in a statement about his fourth in a decade long attempt to get similar laws passed. “SB 79 unwinds decades of overly restrictive policies that have driven housing costs to astronomical levels, forcing millions of people away from #jobs and #transit and into long commutes from the #suburbs or out of the state entirely. It has been a long road to tackling these decades-old problems, but today’s signing marks a new day for #AffordableHousing in California.”

    calmatters.org/housing/2025/10

    berkeleyside.org/2025/10/10/ca

    bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/n

    laist.com/news/housing-homeles

    calmatters.org/housing/2025/09 #UpZoning #Development #WeinerWorld #HousingAffordability

  11. #California Gov #Newsom signs #ScottWiener bill to bulldoze over opposition to expansion of #housing density and residential construction projects along key rail transit corridors.

    New #Yimby law "Abundant & Affordable Homes Near Transit Act" (#SB79) creates less restrictive state #zoning codes, limits options for those seeking to stall plans, restrict density or halt new housing near transit stations.

    Opposition to legislation included exburb #NIMBY #realestate investors who fear #construction of potential seven story condo bldgs near rail transit corridors that would destroy perception of aesthetic quaintness of #suburbs like Burlingame, or Petaluma etc.

    Earlier this summer #GovNewsom signed similarly YIMBY-backed #legislation to exempt most urban apartment projects from #CEQA reviews, the state’s signature environmental protection law. “Go YIMBYs,” Newsom said when signing that bill into law.

    The state's "housing crisis" conditions in which distinct lack of rental unit availability, and #Prop13 tax measure after effects etc, have all spiked the price of basic housing options, and put vast swaths of not particularly exceptional suburbs amongst the nation's highest priced #realestate markets.

    “In California we talk a lot about where we don’t want to build #homes, but rarely do we talk about where we do—until now,” said law sponsoring state senator Wiener in a statement about his fourth in a decade long attempt to get similar laws passed. “SB 79 unwinds decades of overly restrictive policies that have driven housing costs to astronomical levels, forcing millions of people away from #jobs and #transit and into long commutes from the #suburbs or out of the state entirely. It has been a long road to tackling these decades-old problems, but today’s signing marks a new day for #AffordableHousing in California.”

    calmatters.org/housing/2025/10

    berkeleyside.org/2025/10/10/ca

    bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/n

    laist.com/news/housing-homeles

    calmatters.org/housing/2025/09 #UpZoning #Development #WeinerWorld #HousingAffordability

  12. Australia keeps propping up house prices with demand-boosting gimmicks, while affordability spirals out of reach. Meanwhile, NZ is showing what real reform looks like—letting the market cool and celebrating falling prices. Maybe it’s time we stopped fearing a crash and started valuing affordability.

    #housingaffordability #australianhousing #housingcrisis

    macrobusiness.com.au/2025/08/h

  13. Australia’s housing market would crash if these factors aligned

    An Australian property market crash may be laughable, but it’s conceivable. Housing is politically sensitive because access to…
    #NewsBeep #News #Headlines #AU #Australia #Business #Economy #houseprices #Housing #housingaffordability #housingbubble #HousingCrisis #housingmarket #propertybubble #propertymarketcrash #propertyprices #trends
    newsbeep.com/40541/

  14. @dyckron
    Yes, Australia is likely to follow if Canada tips into recession. Even if we avoid a technical recession, real living standards here are already falling—wages, housing, and services are all under strain.
    As for mass immigration, it’s helping headline GDP and supplying cheap labour, but per capita outcomes are going backwards. Without matching investment in infrastructure, housing, and wages, the policy is becoming economically and socially unsustainable.

    #auspol #ausrecession #immigrationpolicy #costoflivingcrisis #housingaffordability #gdppercapita #canadarecession #massimmigration

  15. @dyckron
    Yes, Australia is likely to follow if Canada tips into recession. Even if we avoid a technical recession, real living standards here are already falling—wages, housing, and services are all under strain.
    As for mass immigration, it’s helping headline GDP and supplying cheap labour, but per capita outcomes are going backwards. Without matching investment in infrastructure, housing, and wages, the policy is becoming economically and socially unsustainable.

    #auspol #ausrecession #immigrationpolicy #costoflivingcrisis #housingaffordability #gdppercapita #canadarecession #massimmigration

  16. @dyckron
    Yes, Australia is likely to follow if Canada tips into recession. Even if we avoid a technical recession, real living standards here are already falling—wages, housing, and services are all under strain.
    As for mass immigration, it’s helping headline GDP and supplying cheap labour, but per capita outcomes are going backwards. Without matching investment in infrastructure, housing, and wages, the policy is becoming economically and socially unsustainable.

    #auspol #ausrecession #immigrationpolicy #costoflivingcrisis #housingaffordability #gdppercapita #canadarecession #massimmigration

  17. @dyckron
    Yes, Australia is likely to follow if Canada tips into recession. Even if we avoid a technical recession, real living standards here are already falling—wages, housing, and services are all under strain.
    As for mass immigration, it’s helping headline GDP and supplying cheap labour, but per capita outcomes are going backwards. Without matching investment in infrastructure, housing, and wages, the policy is becoming economically and socially unsustainable.

    #auspol #ausrecession #immigrationpolicy #costoflivingcrisis #housingaffordability #gdppercapita #canadarecession #massimmigration

  18. @dyckron
    Yes, Australia is likely to follow if Canada tips into recession. Even if we avoid a technical recession, real living standards here are already falling—wages, housing, and services are all under strain.
    As for mass immigration, it’s helping headline GDP and supplying cheap labour, but per capita outcomes are going backwards. Without matching investment in infrastructure, housing, and wages, the policy is becoming economically and socially unsustainable.

    #auspol #ausrecession #immigrationpolicy #costoflivingcrisis #housingaffordability #gdppercapita #canadarecession #massimmigration

  19. Melbourne: A rare house price oasis in Australia’s overheated property market.

    While most capitals are pricing out first home buyers, Melbourne is quietly becoming more accessible — thanks in large part to Victoria’s investor-targeted tax regime.

    No praise, of course, is given to the state government for:
    • The Vacant Residential Land Tax (discouraging empty homes)
    • Higher land tax rates on investment properties
    • The windfall gains tax on rezoned land

    These measures have cooled investor demand and helped keep prices within reach of everyday buyers. Other states take note.

    macrobusiness.com.au/2025/05/h

    #melbourneproperty #housingaffordability #firsthomebuyer #victoriapolitics #propertyinvestors #realestateaus #melbournehousing #australianproperty #housingpolicy #landtax #macrobusiness #propertymarket

  20. The Housing Crisis: How Construction Inefficiencies Are Stalling Progress

    As housing costs soar, the U.S. construction industry faces a critical challenge: a staggering lack of productivity that threatens to exacerbate the affordability crisis. With innovative technologies ...

    news.lavx.hu/article/the-housi

    #news #tech #ConstructionInnovation #HousingAffordability #DataDrivenConstruction

  21. Landlords' usage of proprietary price-setting algorithms are the subject of several antitrust lawsuits by the feds and other jurisdictions nationwide.

    How much has that impacted rental prices in #Chicago?

    A great intro from my WBEZ colleagues Amy Qin and Angela Padejski:
    wbez.org/data/2024/10/22/chica

    #Housing #RentalPrices #HousingAffordability #AlgorithmicTransparency #AlgorithmicAccountability

  22. Landlords' usage of proprietary price-setting algorithms are the subject of several antitrust lawsuits by the feds and other jurisdictions nationwide.

    How much has that impacted rental prices in #Chicago?

    A great intro from my WBEZ colleagues Amy Qin and Angela Padejski:
    wbez.org/data/2024/10/22/chica

    #Housing #RentalPrices #HousingAffordability #AlgorithmicTransparency #AlgorithmicAccountability

  23. Landlords' usage of proprietary price-setting algorithms are the subject of several antitrust lawsuits by the feds and other jurisdictions nationwide.

    How much has that impacted rental prices in #Chicago?

    A great intro from my WBEZ colleagues Amy Qin and Angela Padejski:
    wbez.org/data/2024/10/22/chica

    #Housing #RentalPrices #HousingAffordability #AlgorithmicTransparency #AlgorithmicAccountability

  24. Landlords' usage of proprietary price-setting algorithms are the subject of several antitrust lawsuits by the feds and other jurisdictions nationwide.

    How much has that impacted rental prices in #Chicago?

    A great intro from my WBEZ colleagues Amy Qin and Angela Padejski:
    wbez.org/data/2024/10/22/chica

    #Housing #RentalPrices #HousingAffordability #AlgorithmicTransparency #AlgorithmicAccountability

  25. Landlords' usage of proprietary price-setting algorithms are the subject of several antitrust lawsuits by the feds and other jurisdictions nationwide.

    How much has that impacted rental prices in #Chicago?

    A great intro from my WBEZ colleagues Amy Qin and Angela Padejski:
    wbez.org/data/2024/10/22/chica

    #Housing #RentalPrices #HousingAffordability #AlgorithmicTransparency #AlgorithmicAccountability

  26. It marks the launch of a unique #PilotProject that brings together #MultipleGenerations under one roof.

    The #students, selected through a partnership between Silvera for #Seniors and the #Canadian Alliance for #IntergenerationalLiving, will reside at Westview Town Suites.

    The 8 month program, running from September 2024 to April 2025, aims to address student #HousingAffordability while enriching the lives of seniors.

    calgary.ctvnews.ca/calgary-pil

    #BridgingGenerations #Calgary #Alberta #Canada

  27. “It didn’t take very long for people to realize the sharing economy was basically a scam"

    “There are a lot of cities asking themselves this question,” says Goodman. “Are we a city anymore or are we just Disneyland?”

    The Towns Outsmarting Airbnb
    reasonstobecheerful.world/the-
    #airbnb #AirBnBcalypse #Housingaffordability #housing #housingcrisis #sharingeconomy

  28. The 1920s #DymaxionHouse was designed to be an innovative housing solution for by architect/inventor #BuckminsterFuller.

    In 1946, Fortune magazine saw a very successful road ahead for the futuristic homes. They described it as ‘a product that would have more significant social consequences than the introduction of the automobile’.

    They were wrong. Or maybe just overly optimistic about the timeline…

    #housingtechnology #housingaffordability #HousingCrisis #livingry

    doublestonesteel.com/blog/arch

  29. @aerwaves
    We hope for the sake of our American friends that the #EvictionMoratorium is not ended in full.

    If 15% of the pre-pandemic rent needs to be paid. That would be more than enough for now.

    Are you able to elaborate on details?

    #rent #housing #housingAffordability #tennants #landlords