{"id":11799,"date":"2021-06-16T17:06:03","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T17:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=11799"},"modified":"2021-06-16T17:06:03","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T17:06:03","slug":"housing-crisis-can-no-longer-be-ignored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/06\/16\/housing-crisis-can-no-longer-be-ignored\/","title":{"rendered":"Housing crisis can no longer be ignored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Housing spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said that the national housing crisis can no longer be ignored, as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abs.gov.au\/media-centre\/media-releases\/total-value-residential-dwellings-exceeds-8-trillion\">new data<\/a>\u00a0reveals that residential property prices rose 5.4 per cent in the March quarter alone.<br \/>\nSenator Faruqi said:<br \/>\n\u201cAustralia is facing nothing less than a full-blown housing crisis.<br \/>\n\u201cPeople just want a place to live and call home. That\u2019s it. But for more and more people, this is like something of a fantasy.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Morrison government clearly has no plan \u2014 and no interest in developing a plan \u2014 to deal with it. It\u2019s outrageous. Even backbench Liberal MPs are starting to speak up and call for policy change.<br \/>\n\u201cThe government must urgently act on the housing crisis. They can start with a big social housing build and by scrapping the tax loopholes that have turned housing into a big game for speculators and investors.<br \/>\n\u201cHundreds of thousands of people are stuck on public housing waiting lists. Hundreds of thousands are being priced out of an unaffordable, out-of-control housing market.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Greens have a plan to build one million homes over twenty years, scrap the unfair tax exemptions, and ensure everyone has a roof over their head,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Housing spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said that the national housing crisis can no longer be ignored, as\u00a0new data\u00a0reveals that residential property prices rose 5.4 per cent in the March quarter alone. Senator Faruqi said: \u201cAustralia is facing nothing less than a full-blown housing crisis. \u201cPeople just want a place to live and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/06\/16\/housing-crisis-can-no-longer-be-ignored\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Housing crisis can no longer be ignored&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}