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Albanese government to sell off $3bn worth of historic defence sites amid push to free up space for new homes
Richard Marles has decided to sell more than 60 properties, including Victoria Barracks in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane
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Labor's planned fire sale of Vic Barracks ignores the obvious solution: converting this prime publicly-owned land into social & affordable housing. Selling to the highest bidder while Aus' sleep in cars & tents exposes the govt's misplaced priorities. tinyurl.com/yc7a6u34
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Great to see Senator Shoebridge quoting our research in Parliament!
The only way to fix the housing crisis is to address real issues like negative gearing and the capital gains tax discount, instead of blaming immigration.
#auspol @davidshoebridge.bsky.social
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The CGT discount is the most unfair tax handout there is.
It is exacerbating inequality and locking a generation out of home ownership.
Enough is enough.
No more tinkering around the edges of the housing crisis. Labor must scrap the CGT discount in the next budget.
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Every post a winner when you play the revolving door. 💰 www.afr.com/rear-window/...
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Clare O’Neil’s housing policy brain quits for CBA
The latest in CBA’s musical chairs is the housing minister’s policy director.
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Just received a $50 weekly rent increase amid stagnant wages.
The reason given is to “match area rates”, which are artificially inflated by real estate companies themselves.
They're greedily hiking rents as they please, exploiting the total lack of cheaper housing options.
#wapol
#auspol
Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy@meckeringboy.bsky.social
Negative gearing Capital gains tax Our housing market can’t be fair while these unfair arrangements still exist. Stop favouring the already wealthy.
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Negative gearing
Capital gains tax
Our housing market can’t be fair while these unfair arrangements still exist.
Stop favouring the already wealthy.
ABC News Bot (unofficial)@abcnewsbot.bsky.social
Cost-of-living pressures are being felt by all households, but some have been hit harder than others as annual costs increased between 2.3 and 4.2 per cent in 2025, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
www.abc.net.au
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Neoliberal @albomp.bsky.social
@jimchalmers.bsky.social
@australianlabor.bsky.social Govt is tone deaf.
Announcing sale of nearly $2,000,000,000 in surplus Defence Dept controlled land, it ignores the fact that much of this real estate could be developed for govt-owned public housing
#auspol
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64 ADF Properties to be sold for $1.8B. @albomp.bsky.social you said it's a
"Win-Win". No Albo. It will be a Win for the filthy rich & greedy developers. Your Govt should own and develop public housing on these sites. Just like HDB of Singapore Govt, go and consult them #Qt
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Big issue out of my (suburban) caucus I wasn't tracking previously are manufactured home owner's bill of rights. I don't have a true sense of the scale of the problem, but this is an issue under the affordable housing umbrella that gets lost vs the more urban topics.
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"The price just doesn't matter if you can't get a home".
Good write up here of the problems of trying to use rent controls to force down private rents.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk
Rent controls are coming to the UK - but they're not a guaranteed win for tenants
Rent controls are coming to the UK - but they're not a guaranteed win for tenants
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One of the big problems for marketeers such as myself is that people absolutely hate prices being used to indicate scarcity. Rent controls are exactly the same as calls for constraints on TicketMaster: requests to move towards a system of queuing for scarce products rather than money.
Anna Clarke@annaclarke.bsky.social
"The price just doesn't matter if you can't get a home". Good write up here of the problems of trying to use rent controls to force down private rents. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk
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Tomorrow is my #birthday & I'd love your support for mutual aid needed for my neighborhoods here in North #Minneapolis. This is direct rental assistance to families impacted by ICE.
I'm turning 54. If I can get 54 donations, I'll have a very Happy Birthday w neighbors staying in their homes.
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High unemployment and a cost of living crisis and increased transport costs and an ongoing housing shortage in parts of the sector and climate disasters and increased social division - this cluster requires leadership to navigate a way through.
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@11thhourmsnow.bsky.social
about 8 hours ago"A trend that's not going to slow down."
Manufacturing jobs are vanishing and high housing costs persist, yet the Trump administration continues to claim its policies are improving the health of the economy. Bharat Ramamurti and Dan Nathan discuss with @stephruhle.bsky.social on the #11thHour.
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“The extra $20 billion in defence spending by the 2030s with orders from US and British military industrial companies continues at the expense of local essentials like social housing.”
theaimn.net/political-fu...
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Political Futures: Can More Interest Rate Pain Be Avoided?
Following an overly generous rate cut in August 2025, the RBA Board made a unanimous decision to move from On Hold Status to the first-interest rate hike since the post-COVID recovery under the Morris...
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Re: the original post below, my kingdom for left NIMBYs to understand that we do not have the type of housing stock needed for seniors to downsize into. We need more ground oriented missing middle (and let's face it, new small SFHs!) for them and we're not building it at scale.
www.thestar.com
Dr. Mike P. Moffatt@mikepmoffatt.bsky.social
Pieces like cause the left to lose young people. It fails to recognize: 1. Housing needs change as populations age. e.g. A society with a lot of older widowers will need more homes per capita. 2. Shoebox condos house fewer people than larger homes.
www.policyalternatives.ca
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BBC says we shouldn't have rent controls because landlords don't like them 🙄
People having safe affordable homes is more important than landlords having profits
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk
Rent controls are coming to the UK - but they're not a guaranteed win for tenants
Rent controls are coming to the UK - but they're not a guaranteed win for tenants
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What is most notable about this election in Fairfield, CT is it was a referendum on being open or closed to new housing
The Democratic ticket mounted a masterful multi-week public campaign incl op-eds framing being open and having more housing was actually the way to take back control. It worked
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BBC News at it again
"On the surface, rent control measures seem like a good thing for UK renters impoverished by avaricious landlordism.
Profiteering landlords and this American we found who moved to Berlin, however, disagree.
See also: our spin on decontextualised quotes from LSE economists"
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Absolutely this 👇
Turn the publicly owned land into social and affordable housing, particularly for essential workers in and around the CBD, rather than collect more $ to send to the US to pay for submarines we will never see or have to use.
Barbara Pocock@barbarapocock.bsky.social
Labor's planned fire sale of Vic Barracks ignores the obvious solution: converting this prime publicly-owned land into social & affordable housing. Selling to the highest bidder while Aus' sleep in cars & tents exposes the govt's misplaced priorities. tinyurl.com/yc7a6u34
tinyurl.com
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Looking at Labours renters rights act, its going to create big problems in housing market. A) it will lead to lots of empty homes if a landlord tries to sell and then cant. B) Its going to create a big perverse incentive for landlords to sell to other landlords rather than ordinary buyers.
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Nearly 60% of the benefit of negative gearing & the capital gains tax discount goes to the richest 10%
More ppl are struggling to afford the private rental market, pushing them into homelessness.
41% of people waiting to get into public housing are homeless or at risk of homelessness
#Auspol
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#sussanley Labor has spent on health care (bulk billing, cheaper medicines), cost‑of‑living relief (tax cuts, energy bill support, rent assistance), education/debt relief, worker support, and housing affordability measures,
So they spent it on us! #auspol #qt
What did you spend money on, rorts!
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