*…inquiry into housing affordability and supply in Australia." Chaired by NSW Liberal MP Mr Jason Falinski…* A Jew from the wealthy Eastern suburbs of Sydney.

Why not an inquiry into housing affordability and supply in Australia." Chaired by a political plant from the Muslim Western Suburbs with a dash of Lebanese corruption.
That’d be somewhat closer aligned towards the excommunicated renter classes.

Dan

Stop mass immigration and foreign ownership. Particularly the foreign owners who buy houses and leave them vacant.

Yep, time to sack at least a hundred thousand useless bureaucrats, & get government off our backs.

I paid my house insurance the other day, & contributed almost $500 to keep useless bureaucrats . Half of it in stamp duty will at least go to my state, the rest in GST will be even more wastefully distributed to keep them in the failed states of Tasmania & South Australia.

This talk of death duty is a furphy too. How would giving it to governments help distribute it to any worthy citizens. As it is my kids will be given a leg into the market by inheriting the value of my real estate, a much better way of distribution, than more government waste, or hand outs to the bludgers.

Obviously, with a housing shortage it is ridiculous to import more, often useless, migrants, filling housing. Filling the coffers of universities with imported students doesn't help the general population in any way. Dumbing down our courses to help students with little English is certainly not in the interest of citizens either.

Who was it said the old days were not better than today?

Thanks again, Ross- your second presentation does provide a better format, especially with the aid of the outside diagrams and analysis. Thus, inflation, immigration and interest rates are NOT the cause(s) of the present predicament. This only leaves some perennial/residual issues- planning and government charges for the land; inflated land prices and taxation.

if we deal with them one at a time. (1) There has been a government loading on all land charges, which is aimed at the new land buyers- and not spread across the entire community. It seems to be saying, "if you want to live on this new development, you will pay a premium". The solution to this discriminatory tactic, is to change to land tax for all households; as it must be remembered that the inflation also raises the values of all houses in the community, not just in one new suburb.

Secondly, poor planning is no excuse for poor value for your money. New buyers should not have to carry the infrastructure required by a larger population. As the population rises, the extra taxes raised should be used to expand the services. Planning by reserving land for hospitals, schools and other services, including public transport can be done without a surcharge being placed on new residents. If you think of the model villages in England built by employers in the 19th century, the owner of the land obtained his/her rent or payment as the village grew in residency.

Lastly, there is an opportunity now, with many city residents not required to work in the office, to move to the country, where house prices and rents are cheaper. Or else, they may decide to build their home in a country town. Bring on the fast train from Melbourne to Brisbane!

After 30 years one would think that Ross Elliott et al would have come up with solutions to not have the situation we're in now.
That applies to all of these "experts" who keep telling us how great they are yet here we are lamenting the same old perpetual failures in sorting out the mess created by the experts.

It’s really hard not to be scathing about the abysmal social outcomes of this country, with unaffordable housing at its core.

On top of the total failure of Government on this issue, is it’s disconnect with a disintegration of social cohesion on a further level of ethnic crime. Announced today was an increase of five hundred police to be deployed in the Western suburbs of Sydney to quell gun violence, as we slide further and quicker into the multicultural mire,
Another of the Governments hobby horses.

Is there any hope that politicians at the top of the feeding chain, can concentrate on the increasingly desperate plight that living in the worlds most unaffordable cities creates for the “Everyman”, and the urgency that it actually is?

Dan