Sales brochure for a conference.

Sorry love, homeshare is just not the answer, just a possible source of conflict?

Whereas affordable housing is!

And given the actual cost of building a steel framed house with 4 beds an ensuite and a fifty year structural guarantee, is still around $150,00, very doable if we just remove the public/private middleman with their unearned profit demands from the system; we could rollout affordable housing for all?

Albeit, we need to stop focusing on the demands of the big city developers alone?

The white shoe brigade with their "brown paper bags/electoral funding donations; making sure corrupt union officials are just not alone when it come to backhanders and bribes for outcomes?

Never before in human history have we set out quite deliberately to make something as basic shelter and a human right as unaffordable as it currently is!

What is missing here are governments of all political persuasion with moral compasses that are patently still in good working condition, to use some of our public money to acquire large tracts of suitable undeveloped land; then again using modest public funds to redevelop and connect with rapid rail?

Perhaps from a growing pool of money created for just such a purpose, rezone the land and resell it at a reasonable profit, yet still at a price any current income earner can actually afford!

Housing should only ever be seen as basic shelter and therefore a basic human right and not a means to make rent seekers obscenely rich? Obscene in the context of unearned income!

unearned from the usually eternally increasing rent and so called ever increasing property value! (bubble bubble)

WE need some method of moderating house prices. And a most liberal rollout of government supplied affordable housing might be as good as anywhere to start from.

Given Shylock rent seekers are only interested in money, not universal affordability, or better yet, some currently missing Christian attitudes? And not for show purposes just on Sunday!

A set in stone bricks and mortar mindset must be altered so new technologies and innovation get a look in!
Rhrosty

"The time has come for multi-generational living"

Say what?! How does that fit with the leftist 'Progressive' policies that were and still are aimed at devaluing and finally destroying 'traditional' family and the extended family?

Wasn't the State going to provide?

Of course there is no way the 'Progressives' will ever admit that the pigeons have come home to roost, that their social experimentation had serious unexpected negative consequences.

Say what?! How does that fit with the leftist 'Progressive' policies that were and still are aimed at devaluing and finally destroying 'traditional' family and the extended family.

Beach
Can you explain what you are talking about .

I do not see how homeshare would ever be a part of society. It is not our culture to live with our parents or grandparents for life. When you get old and wise enough you fly the coup and make your own way in the world.

People that do that are sharing far more than a roof space, besides they do not have the health regulations that we do.
There are obstacles to affordable housing. The existence of covenants which control colours and size of dwelling .

Bare ground not yet sold, All residences have to be in excess of 250,000 $ building cost, with out buildings to be colorbond steel, no dogs or cats allowed.

Council regulations can force massive costs onto housing. Anyone that wants something out of the ordinary is in for a hell of a fight to even start

plantagenet, Rhosty & onthebeach, from 10 to 15 million years ago until WW2 we lived in multigenerational or extended families. Then we moved to nuclear families. Then a few decades later we moved to single parent families. The result is a social, economic & cultural disaster carefully designed by communists "with malice aforethought" to kill the family. The answer is simple, rebuild the extended family unit, with changes to our tax/welfare mix, that encourage people to live in them. Discriminate against people who choose not to live in them.

The human species is just around a million years old as a species! And there was a time when mutual protection demanded we share a few caves!

Peasant farmers eventually learned to build rudimentary shelters and strike off on their own. Albeit behind a common wall in some circumstances.

The depression era, forced some extended family sharing/overcrowding? But those days are gone!

Remove all the obvious profiteering and deliberately created limited supply. And almost anyone with a average income can afford a house/privacy.

And sharing as posed, will just delay getting affordable housing done, which far and away is the best solution and brings with it an economic boost.

Time for our erstwhile leaders to clean the duck manure from their ears, dust off the volumes on keynesian economics and just get on with what they're paid to produce! Other than the endless excuses of the incompetent or corrupt? And if the cap fits?
Rhrosty.