{"id":16226,"date":"2022-04-20T12:58:54","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T12:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=16226"},"modified":"2022-04-20T12:58:54","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T12:58:54","slug":"young-people-betrayed-on-housing-affordability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/04\/20\/young-people-betrayed-on-housing-affordability\/","title":{"rendered":"Young people betrayed on housing affordability"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Australian Greens Housing spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said that a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/politics\/federal\/young-voters-believe-homeownership-out-of-reach-name-cost-of-living-top-priority-20220419-p5aeih.html\">new Resolve Strategic poll<\/a>&nbsp;has told a sorry story about the Coalition and Labor\u2019s abandonment of young people on housing security and affordability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>67 per cent of people aged 18-34 now agree that many younger people who haven\u2019t already bought a home will never be able to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Senator Faruqi said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYoung people can see through the Coalition and Labor\u2019s complete policy-fail on housing and the cost of living.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe major parties have dropped the ball on this. They are condemning young people out of house and home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Coalition and Labor are committed to entrenching the unfair status quo through initiatives like the Home Guarantee Scheme, which will further fuel the housing crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhat we need is a big, bold plan to match the scale of the problem and this is what the Greens will deliver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe will push the next government to build one million new homes over 20 years, including 125,000 new homes for purchase through a shared equity arrangement with the Commonwealth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have to wind back negative gearing and the capital gains tax discount, and strengthen renters\u2019 rights, including by capping rent increases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHousing is a human right and solving the housing crisis should be a top priority for every party at this election.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Housing spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said that a&nbsp;new Resolve Strategic poll&nbsp;has told a sorry story about the Coalition and Labor\u2019s abandonment of young people on housing security and affordability. 67 per cent of people aged 18-34 now agree that many younger people who haven\u2019t already bought a home will never be able &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/04\/20\/young-people-betrayed-on-housing-affordability\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Young people betrayed on housing affordability&#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-16226","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\/16226","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=16226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16227,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16226\/revisions\/16227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}