The affordability of housing is an electoral problem to red live with both leaders who make promises to help young people buy a house.
On Saturday, a State by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, to draw attention to immigration and its impact on housing and medical services.
“What happens to the fact that people like us cannot get any home? We can no longer get rental,” he shouted before being escorted.
Later that day, the opposition leader, Peter Dutton, repeated the message that he wanted to be the “Prime Minister for Housing Property, Household affordability and accessibility to home.”
What promises the coalition in the house?
During his budget speech in response, Dutton pointed out several initiatives aimed at improving the affordability of housing.
- Reduce the permanent migration program by 25 percent;
- More strict fallen in foreign students;
- $ 5 billion to finance essential infrastructure; and
- Allow the first housing buyers to access up to $ 50,000 of their retirement for a housing deposit.
A Heckler interrupted the press conference of Anthony Albanese on Saturday. Fountain: AAPA / Lukas Coch
Dutton says that his plan to reduce the migration program will release around 100,000 homes for Australians: 40,000 in the first year.
The opposition leader has not revealed what categories of migrants will reduce, but has said that this would be revealed before the day of the election.
They have indicated that allowing the first housing buyers to use their Super for a housing deposit – Although Dutton has argued that he would help people stand on the housing scale.
There is also skepticism if the $ 5 billion of coalition in infrastructure spending will achieve their goal of creating 500,000 new houses.
The money will be made available to local governments to help. But its success may depend on whether money is provided through subsidies, which are probably assumed or by concessional loans.
Work has called “fantasy” figures and believes that financing would see that 70,000 houses would be built in the best case.
Dutton has also promised to prohibit foreign investors and temporary residents from buying existing Australian housing for a period of two years.
Work has matched this promise, presenting it in February this year.
The future fund of Housing Australia of Housing Australia of $ 10 billion of work, which Dutton says that he has not built a single new house, will also face the ax if the coalition is chosen.
What promises the work of housing?
Work has defended its housing fund, whose objective is to build 20,000 new social housing properties for five years from 2024. It has blamed the greens and the coalition for delays in the approval of the legislation.
“If legislation is approved in December 2024, yes, magically, there is no great housing construction,” said Albanese.
He said that tens of thousands of houses were under construction.
“The previous government was not even bothered in having a Minister of Housing, much less to build a public home.”
Anthony Albanese has defended the housing history of his government. Fountain: AAPA / Lukas Coch
The Government says that it will also build 20,000 new affordable homes through its National Housing Agreement.
In his budget, Labor assigned $ 33 billion to address the affordability of the house.
This includes A shared capital program for the first housing buyers that sees the government contribute to 40 percent of the purchase price.
The scheme supports 40,000 people, and there are price limits of up to $ 1.3 million in NSW, $ 950,000 in Victoria and $ 1 million in Queensland and Act.
The government will also try to make construction faster and more cheaper by providing $ 50 million to boost the development of Construction methods.
