Gavin, infrastructure and the bush is a double edged sword, because once you provide the infrastructure, up go the prices.

As for affordability, as usual, it's always someone else's fault.

Not wanting to give up their social life, or, having mobile phones, foxtel and any other item that require money has nothing to do with it either hey.

Another problem many young ones face today, is that they often want THE HOUSE, not just A HOUSE and there in lies the problem.

Lower their standards for their first home, buy some, or find some hand me down furniture and you may find they can actually afford a house after all, because they have to realize that a simple late a day costs almost two grand a year.

It's all too often about choices that makes housing unaffordable.

always good to play the victim. My father in law and family lived in a tin shed with no power or hot water for years while saving for a house. Never had we had such a pack of whingers who want everything but won't sacrifice anything to get it. If you stop playing the victim card you might be surprised how easy it is today compared to 50 years ago.

Spot on runner, many today can afford the $300K house, but they want the mansion.

I heard a great saying some time ago about the young ones.

Where we started at the bottom and worked up to where our parents were, the young ones want to start from where we are now.

Owning a house is often about life's choices, and then there are those who will never own a house simply because they won't make the commitment.

Just lime there are so e who won't take a high paid mining job, because they won't give up the drugs.

...The majority view on these pages indicates a disturbing confusion between "cause and effect".

...The housing market remains artificially inflated, (overpriced) and so to most young people, represents the unachievable dream.

Diver Dan, you can buy a house in the likes of Redcliffe QLD for less than $300,000.

25min to the Brisbane air port, rail link coming, 35 min from the CBD.

Whats unaffordable about that?

Now if young ones want 'the house' instead if 'a house', then that's 'their' choice.

There are affordable houses available, they simply have to lower their standards.

Another goverenment stuff up, from both sides, was the way the first home owners grant was administered.

It should never have been a gift, rather, it should have only ever been a low/no interest loan, repayable when the house was sold, because if it were a loan, the funds could have been used many times over to help thousands more get into their first home.

More poor policy by out of touch law makers.

Housing be it affordability and access in the rental market is the top most critical issue facing Australia. Prices are far too hight. We are at a bottleneck.

Homelessness and what that means to those most disadvantaged is a blight on the souls of us all, as Australians.

Public Transport must come second alongside cost of living generally.

The widening divide, means the falling equity between the top and bottom is impacting on the mobility and productivity of our future, as a Nation. It strips our social cohesion as a nation and our social capital.

It appears the youth as well as the elder Australian's are in a dire position. How directions of future housing policy directives pan will make or break this nation regardless of the condition of the overall economy is reported in the media.

Housing is an enormous issue Australia has to break-through... now.

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