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affordable what?
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Something that keeps me up at night is the fact that my sister is trying buy a house, it is almost imposable for her to afford a house on her good fulltime income. Making home ownership affordable can’t be as hard as people make it out to be. Maybe we could make a proportion of every new housing development affordable housing. Also we could look at a stamp duty concession scheme; this really needs reform so people can afford to buy houses the right for them. Its shocking that average ACT house rents are the highest in Australia and rising rapidly. Since 2001 the number of both public and private rental properties have fallen. This has happened because the ACT Government has sold more housing than it has acquired and the holdings of private landlords have also fallen. The number of homeless people is also rising, with emergency housing services unable to cope with demand.

April 25, 2008 | 9:06 PM Comments  1 comments

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Look … land lords and their property need to be protected against damage and the ‘risk’ of damage needs to be mitigated. Rental blacklists should be regulated to stop discrimination against renters and risk externalisation being ‘bounced’ on to other property owners. The rental blacklists that are run by the real estate industry quite often unfairly prevent some tenants from accessing private rental housing. For example I have a good friend that was the one on the books for a share house. Basically there was a falling out with the other housemates in the share house. They ended up taking off after trashing the place; anyway my mate ended up on a black list and finds it really hard to rent a place in Canberra. Incentives are needed to encourage property owners to provide affordable and environmentally sustainable housing. This could include Land tax discounts that can be given to property owners who provide affordable housing of an acceptable standard to low income earners. also incentives such as interest free loans, to encourage property owners to install insulation and solar hot water systems in rental properties. Also a ‘Prevention of Eviction Program’ prevents many people in private and public tenancies from becoming homeless. The issue is not about more funding but a better coordination between property owners and their agents, renters and the ACT Public housing sector.

April 13, 2008 | 7:20 PM Comments  0 comments

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