Sigh. Here's the (ethical) property lobby, talking its book. As loosely adapted, from conventional RBA-ABS propaganda.

Sigh. We already have the Guardian, the Greens, and indeed the Prime Minister himself. Fibbing, that the rental-homeless crisis has Nothing To Do with the unbelievable 715K immigration tsunami, over 2022-24.

Reader, should you at all imagine otherwise - Sorry, But You're A Racist.

We have a population problem, not a housing problem. First: fix the population problem with nil immigration for the immediate future. Nil overseas students just to keep university chancellors rich. Get the 400,000 plus unemployed working. Stop voting for Labor, Coalition and Greens.

Public housing is the most immoral activity of any government in the country. Those who win the lottery & get public housing have cheap housing for life. Those who didn't win have to pay for their own expensive housing & that of the lottery winners as well, for life. In NSW recently it was revealed that some state members of parliament were living in cheap public housing. Once in it they weren't moving despite their high income.

Welfare should be a one stop shop, & the same for all, not a general welfare payment, then added to by cheap housing, medical, transport & a host of other special side benefits. There should be no special extras for the lucky ones, like subsidised housing. If we are going to give welfare it should be sufficient & the same for every one.

Those unlucky enough to loose a job while paying off a home are entitled to the same amount of welfare as renters. They stand to lose more than any renter, if they can't keep up their payments, while subsidising public housing tenants.

Expand the NDIS? Already unsustainable! Instead need a new valuation model for real estate pricing based on the nett annual profit.

Negative gearing must be limited to 4-6 new never lived in properties! Ditto capital gains exclusions. We need something like eminent domain to allow more land to be released for capital works, namely a 2-3-mile-wide corridor for rapid rail.

Once the route is clearly and quickly established the remaining land could be rezoned as urban and sold to intending homeowner occupiers. This would all but pay for the build. And ensure supply exceeded demand.

Investors need to be weaned from their bricks and mortar mindset and shifted to new commercial innovation and manufacture. All our best ideas and people are forced offshore to benefit others! This needs to end!
Alan B.

Of course government could help the housing supply by getting their sticky hands out of the pockets of home/housing builders.

Councils could reduce the cost of land by reducing the 10s of thousands they add to each block's cost with ridiculous charges, & the same goes for state governments. They could also reduce the ridiculous & costly waste time they add by reducing the time it takes to pass approvals, & reducing the costs of applications. In fact they could get out of the way of people who want to subdivide some land.

My daughter is caught up in this rort. She wants to put a house on my property. However with my council 20 acres is not big enough to allow 2 houses. A town planner tells me they can force approval for a 3 acre sub division, but it will cost me $60,000, & make a mess of my property, just to fence off an acre.

Evidentially I can build a house for a manager, but with out a separate land title she can not borrow to build.

Despite the housing shortage our idiot bureaucrats are still going to be bloody minded in maintaining the status quo.

One area where governments are loath to tackle housing oversupply, is the amount of excess accommodation in the hands of the taxpayer subsidised 2.7 million aged pensioners. Often one person is occupying a 3 or 4 bedroom home, whilst many of these folk are receiving a decent chunk of the billions in un-means tested money from young taxpayers struggling to keep a roof over their's, and their families heads! A means tested Pensioner Property Tax is what's needed. Agree?