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On a different note, an article that explains exactly why Australia needs to go back to State owned public social housing, as it was years ago when Albo was a young bloke fighting to stop the housing commission houses from being sold off.
It is very much like any other public service, it needs to be built before it is required, just like the electricity system.
You don't decide to put in more generation when everything is blacked out, you put it in before the load increases, that is why it needs to be in Government hands.
The same applies with water, sewage and social housing, the private sector has no interest in spending money on poor return, poor tenant housing, but it is required.
That's why it was built and owned by the Government, as a public service, remember.
When I read this article, it sounds like we need exactly what we used to have, State housing commissions, building and operating social housing back when politicians were actually responsible for something other than throwing around taxpayers money to the private sector.
We need an ambitious national project that deals with every area of housing policy as a coherent whole, and which ends the fragmentation of responsibilities between different levels of government, and across different agencies.
It should acknowledge that the Australian government has a special capacity to finance public projects and use money for the public good.
And it needs to drive the construction of 950,000 social and affordable rental dwellings by 2041, which, at 50,000 new dwellings every year, is far higher than current government target of 8,000 dwellings a year over the next five years.
In a new report published on Thursday by the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI), researchers say a national strategy is needed to overcome decades of accumulated policy errors that have contributed to our current housing crisis.
They say it will require new federal legislation, new federal agencies, and a new appreciation that people in a civilised society have a right to adequate housing.
It has been co-authored by six academics: Chris Martin, UNSW Sydney; Julie Lawson, RMIT University; Vivienne Milligan, UNSW Sydney; Chris Hartley, UNSW Sydney; Hal Pawson, UNSW Sydney; and Jago Dodson, RMIT University.
They argue Australia's incoherent and fragmented housing policies have become so unworkable a circuit-breaker is needed.
It is very much like any other public service, it needs to be built before it is required, just like the electricity system.
You don't decide to put in more generation when everything is blacked out, you put it in before the load increases, that is why it needs to be in Government hands.
The same applies with water, sewage and social housing, the private sector has no interest in spending money on poor return, poor tenant housing, but it is required.
That's why it was built and owned by the Government, as a public service, remember.
When I read this article, it sounds like we need exactly what we used to have, State housing commissions, building and operating social housing back when politicians were actually responsible for something other than throwing around taxpayers money to the private sector.
Australia's housing policies make 'the wealthiest the most subsidised cohort' and experts say that needs to change
Australia needs an ambitious national project to fix our housing crisis, researchers say.
We need an ambitious national project that deals with every area of housing policy as a coherent whole, and which ends the fragmentation of responsibilities between different levels of government, and across different agencies.
It should acknowledge that the Australian government has a special capacity to finance public projects and use money for the public good.
And it needs to drive the construction of 950,000 social and affordable rental dwellings by 2041, which, at 50,000 new dwellings every year, is far higher than current government target of 8,000 dwellings a year over the next five years.
In a new report published on Thursday by the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI), researchers say a national strategy is needed to overcome decades of accumulated policy errors that have contributed to our current housing crisis.
They say it will require new federal legislation, new federal agencies, and a new appreciation that people in a civilised society have a right to adequate housing.
It has been co-authored by six academics: Chris Martin, UNSW Sydney; Julie Lawson, RMIT University; Vivienne Milligan, UNSW Sydney; Chris Hartley, UNSW Sydney; Hal Pawson, UNSW Sydney; and Jago Dodson, RMIT University.
They argue Australia's incoherent and fragmented housing policies have become so unworkable a circuit-breaker is needed.