Housing Minister Clare O\u2019Neil\u2019s promise to deregulate home building won\u2019t fix the housing crisis, according to Australian Greens Housing and Homelessness spokesperson, Senator Barbara Pocock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Greens spokesperson for housing and homelessness Senator Barbara Pocock:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cToday\u2019s leaked Treasury advice shows that this Government has caved to demands of the property lobby. Labor needs to be careful they’re actually tackling the housing crisis, not just doing the bidding of property developers who want to make more money. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe need more housing built more quickly but what we don\u2019t want is poor quality housing in bad locations. There is a dire need to lift productivity in the housing sector but we must be very careful undertaking reforms in this area to avoid greenlighting shoddy developers who will deliver substandard dwellings in inappropriate settings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMany of these regulations are in place to protect consumers, protect the environment and to make our urban areas more liveable. We can\u2019t afford to lower our standards on safety and sustainability as we try to improve efficiency. Giving robots control over environmental approvals is not the answer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe housing crisis in Australia can\u2019t be solved simply through deregulation. We urgently need to wind back tax breaks for wealthy property investors, such as the capital gains tax discount and negative gearing, to open up a pathway for first home buyers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThese tax breaks make home ownership unaffordable for too many Australians and turbo charge intergenerational inequality. We need action on housing but we need the right set of policy solutions to ensure equity and liveability in our urban environments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIf the Government doesn’t tackle the tax handouts to rich property investors, they are not tackling the housing crisis. Unless the Government makes the necessary reforms to the tax concessions for property investors, we\u2019ll continue to see house prices rise and rents spiral and we\u2019ll continue to see levels of homelessness increase, which advocacy groups have said is the worst in living memory. The Greens stand ready to work with Labor to action this urgent reform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAhead of the Government\u2019s productivity roundtable, it\u2019s disappointing that the outcomes have already been decided. We\u2019ve had public debate in good faith on how to boost productivity, and deregulation alone won\u2019t cut it. Labor must deliver on essential tax reform to deal with the housing crisis, ensure workers get their fair share and strengthen flexible working arrangements for women and carers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Housing Minister Clare O\u2019Neil\u2019s promise to deregulate home building won\u2019t fix the housing crisis, according to Australian Greens Housing and Homelessness spokesperson, Senator Barbara Pocock. Greens spokesperson for housing and homelessness Senator Barbara Pocock: \u201cToday\u2019s leaked Treasury advice shows that this Government has caved to demands of the property lobby. Labor needs to be careful … Continue reading “Greens say deregulation won\u2019t fix the housing crisis”<\/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-34284","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\/34284","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=34284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34285,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34284\/revisions\/34285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}