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We Don't Need More Houses | newmatilda.com - 1 views

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Hometrack's Brendan Darcy recently released analysis claiming that the ABS data significantly under-estimated the housing supply in Australia, because it only counts "occupied dwellings". But on census night in 2006, the ABS reported 830,000 unoccupied dwellings. "We estimate there are at least 10 million dwellings in Australia compared with ABS data showing occupied dwellings of 8.3 million. The extra one to two million dwellings consist of a mixture of housing awaiting sale or development, vacant dwellings, second homes, and abandoned homes," Darcy concluded.
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Australia has one of the most skewed property taxation regimes in the industrialised world, rewarding investors and owner-occupiers at the expense of renters and those looking to buy a house. The Capital Gains Tax exemption for the family home costs taxpayers $30 billion a year, disproportionately advantaging those of us who own multi-million dollar homes.
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the number of landlords reporting profits grew by 36,000, while those reporting losses grew by 594,000.
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Still Unconvinced, Home Buyer? Check Out the View From the Drone - 0 views

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Did we know that Drones are like Real Estate agents technology of choice? "We're not selling $150,000 homes with this technology," said Matthew Leone, the director of web marketing and chief drone master for Halstead. "Multimillion-dollar homes demand Madison Avenue marketing and advertising, not Main Street."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Did we know that Drones are like Real Estate agents technology of choice? "We're not selling $150,000 homes with this technology," said Matthew Leone, the director of web marketing and chief drone master for Halstead. "Multimillion-dollar homes demand Madison Avenue marketing and advertising, not Main Street."</div>

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Me and my McMansion: Australians and their homes - 0 views

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IKEA's flatpack homes for refugees get a reluctant OK from Lebanon | Green Prophet - 0 views

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We The Tiny House People (Documentary): Small Homes, Tiny Flats & Wee Shelters - YouTube - 0 views

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Boom threatens the great Australian dream of a home - 0 views

www.smh.com.au/...-of-a-home-20140404-3645c.html

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jennifermae on 05 Apr 14

more boom and bust stuff from SMH - N.B. Senate Enquiry into affordable housing: "But housing affordability isn't just a problem for middle-class Australia. Concern about a lack of affordable housing has prompted a Senate inquiry - due to report in June - on the regimes of incentives, planning and funding that currently affect the supply of affordable housing for the country's most vulnerable and less well-off."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">more boom and bust stuff from SMH - N.B. Senate Enquiry into affordable housing: "But housing affordability isn't just a problem for middle-class Australia. Concern about a lack of affordable housing has prompted a Senate inquiry - due to report in June - on the regimes of incentives, planning and funding that currently affect the supply of affordable housing for the country's most vulnerable and less well-off."</div>

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Affordable London home scheme launched by mayor Boris Johnson | theguardian.com - 0 views

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Housing blame game here to stay in world of infinite demand - 0 views

theconversation.com/world-of-infinite-demand-24716

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Rebecca Conroy on 26 Mar 14

"hey are not increasing affordability. They are not more environmentally sustainable. They are increasing housing supply, mainly for local and global elites to accumulate capital. A major consequence of the Australian government's taxation and regulatory regimes regarding housing has been to increase prices by encouraging demand for housing as a commodity, rather than a place to live. The various inquiries into the state of the Australian housing market should look at not just the regulations on foreign investment, but at the taxation regimes that encourage the home-grown approach. Most importantly the inquiries should ask: what is the effect of Australian regulation and taxation regimes on what is being built, and for whom?"

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"hey are not increasing affordability. They are not more environmentally sustainable. They are increasing housing supply, mainly for local and global elites to accumulate capital. A major consequence of the Australian government's taxation and regulatory regimes regarding housing has been to increase prices by encouraging demand for housing as a commodity, rather than a place to live. The various inquiries into the state of the Australian housing market should look at not just the regulations on foreign investment, but at the taxation regimes that encourage the home-grown approach. Most importantly the inquiries should ask: what is the effect of Australian regulation and taxation regimes on what is being built, and for whom?"</div>

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