Housing crisis solutions far from reach

[Marc]

EMILY BOURKE: The latest national projections put the shortfall in dwellings at close to 500,000 within a decade.

The New South Wales Government moved this week to offer big cash incentives for first home buyers in the hope that construction will take off.

While the Victorian Government announced plans to create six new suburbs on Melbourne's outskirts for housing developments.

But construction is falling woefully short of demand.

So, what are the solutions and can they really work?

For more I spoke to Chris Johnson from the Urban Taskforce, Ruth Spielman from the National Growth Areas Alliance which represents 25 of the nation's fastest growing municipalities and Angela Spinney from the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute.

Chris Johnson, you speak on behalf of developers, is the housing crisis real?

More: http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/con...2/s3525884.htm

[eri]

an interesting article but man

who did the editing?

no wonder the ozzies are outsourcing it to nz

the spoken grammar in the article should have been fixed and spelling mistakes should never have been there

you end up not being quite sure what anyone said

did the interviewee mangle their grammar?

or did the writer mangle the spelling AND the grammar

had to keep reading back to try and guess what point they were trying to make

a generation is coming up where they are trading off one renting rather than buying and also leaving nearer to the inner-city rather than in the urban sprawl.

presumably should be

a generation is coming up that will have to choose between renting and buying, and living in the inner-city or in the suburbs

that sorts it out a bit but the whole statement once fixed is basically pointless because

EVERY generation has to decide both those things anyway

the scary thing to me is that the article's gist seems to be that gov. needs to give up on equality and individual responsibility

apparently some people are just too stupid to make their own long term choices

so both levels of gov. need to ignore democracy in pursuit of socialist utopian future

which will then need to be globalized to lead to the desire for a world socialist gov.

which will need an "elite" and an "ideology" to run it

it'll be just like animal farm

stalin, mao, pol pot, kim il jong

but presumably i will have checked out by then

or been unplugged as a counter-revolutionary

[mattinvestor]

NSW government seems to only be focusing on helping FHBs via incentivising them to buy new homes. And aren't new homes generally sold off more expensive than existing homes?
Probably helpful for the building industry, but not any more helpful for FHBs and affordability.

[Zackary77]

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[eri]

perhaps these hit and run garbled + irrelevant posts

are artificial intelligence

trying to act real!

there's a conspiracy for you!

[saminegalley676]

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