Homelessness starts to be an issue

essfer said :

Dear Mr Sesleja,
Before you take the opportunity to have a dig at the Stanhope Government, please tell me how you will do things differently. There is little value in you criticising the poor efforts of the incumbent if you aren’t offering an alternative with defined, actionable and measurable plans.

Or put another way – put up or shut up.

Well, I did just that years ago. Have a look at http://acthomeless.org/

Deref said :

EvanJames said :

Handing the development of housing in Canberra to the private sector was a huge mistake, and it’s not getting any better.

+1

It’s a bloody disgrace that in one of the wealthiest countries on Earth there are people who don’t have a basic roof over their head. This is one of the many reason that the Labor Party should be (figuratively) crucified. Although one thing’s absolutely certain – Zed’s mob would be worse. Much worse.

Figuratively? Why only figuratively?

neanderthalsis said :

essfer said :

Dear Mr Sesleja,
Before you take the opportunity to have a dig at the Stanhope Government, please tell me how you will do things differently. .

Essfer, part of the housing affordability policy of the Libs is to scrap stamp duty for first home buyers, which would save around $20k on a $500 000 house, which is more than any savings you’ll get out the Jonh & Katy circus and their unpalatable “land rent” concept.

The price bubble in canberra is not due to drip feeding overpriced land. i doubt it helps, but it’s not the cause. it’s because it’s a speculative bubble. new land and new building has outpaced pop growth in canberra for many years. if you want to get prices to drop (virtually nobody wants this, though they sometimes pretend they do) the solutions are easy and well-known.
1. eliminate FHB grant
2. eliminate CG exemption for PPOR
3. quarantine Neg. gearing to income earned by the property

if you really want to bring prices down (nobody does, but I already said that) require buyers to have a minimum 20% deposit.

do all 4 of those things and house prices will be 1/2 what they are now in 2-3 years. Of course if you do that the banks will go bust, the local and state gov’ts will go bust. Which is why nobody seriously considers doing anything that will reduce prices. Instead they take every opportunity to further inflate them, thus ensuring that we will have a catastrophic collapse at some point in the not terribly distant future. Especially the ACT where the gov’t is so dependent upon stamp duties and land sales. then all the people gloating about how much money they are supposedly making off of property now will be jumping up and down on stanhopes political corpse blaming him for their ignorance and short-sightedness.

but of course, it’s different here. Australia has a land shortage, right?

neanderthalsis said :

to scrap stamp duty for first home buyers, which would save around $20k on a $500 000 house, which is more than any savings you’ll get out the Jonh & Katy circus and their unpalatable “land rent” concept.

See, here’s the lunacy. First home buyers buying half million dollar houses? No way in hell I can afford half a million dollars. Where’s the affordable housing that we used to have? Modest little homes. The private developers have no interest in building those, because the value of the piece of dirt is screaming PROFIT at them. They can build a modest affordable home, or a mcmansion on the same bit of dirt. The government gives them vast tracts of dirt, what are they going to do with it?

same with private buyers, of couse. The price of the dirt is sky-high, they’re going to view the home they build on it as an investment, and so build the biggest house they can.

Too many people, not enough dirt.

EvanJames said :

Handing the development of housing in Canberra to the private sector was a huge mistake, and it’s not getting any better.

+1

It’s a bloody disgrace that in one of the wealthiest countries on Earth there are people who don’t have a basic roof over their head. This is one of the many reason that the Labor Party should be (figuratively) crucified. Although one thing’s absolutely certain – Zed’s mob would be worse. Much worse.

essfer said :

Dear Mr Sesleja,
Before you take the opportunity to have a dig at the Stanhope Government, please tell me how you will do things differently. .

Essfer, part of the housing affordability policy of the Libs is to scrap stamp duty for first home buyers, which would save around $20k on a $500 000 house, which is more than any savings you’ll get out the Jonh & Katy circus and their unpalatable “land rent” concept.

essfer said :

Before you take the opportunity to have a dig at the Stanhope Government, please tell me how you will do things differently.

Dear Essfer. Zed is not in power and is unlikely to ever be. Therefore your question is completely and utterly irrelevant. The problem is, without doubt, due to the Stanhope government. Maybe you could acknowledge that?

Dear Thumper,
I’ve said it on other stories so many times that it makes my brain ache – this entire problem has been caused by the Stanhope Government’s policy on land release (and associated things like playing gargle and swallow with the developers).

I’m not trying to play that down. I just tire of hearing Zed sledge the other team whenever he gets a chance. It’s not that he’s wrong, he’s just not offering any alternative of substance and until he does perhaps he should just shut the f*** up.

He’s giving us two options come voting time: The current regime that is making life harder for most of us, or a party who’s willing to criticise the incumbent even though they know they wouldn’t do anything differently.

Um, I think the root causes of homelessness extend a bit further than land release…

Before you take the opportunity to have a dig at the Stanhope Government, please tell me how you will do things differently.

Dear Essfer. Zed is not in power and is unlikely to ever be. Therefore your question is completely and utterly irrelevant. The problem is, without doubt, due to the Stanhope government. Maybe you could acknowledge that?

Dear Thumper,
I’ve said it on other stories so many times that it makes my brain ache – this entire problem has been caused by the Stanhope Government’s policy on land release (and associated things like playing gargle and swallow with the developers).

I’m not trying to play that down. I just tire of hearing Zed sledge the other team whenever he gets a chance. It’s not that he’s wrong, he’s just not offering any alternative of substance and until he does perhaps he should just shut the f*** up.

He’s giving us two options come voting time: The current regime that is making life harder for most of us, or a party who’s willing to criticise the incumbent even though they know they wouldn’t do anything differently.

FirstPoint is such a useless system. You have people calling a refuge asking if there is room, and all you can do is give them the FirstPoint number and tell them to call there just so FirstPoint can tell them the exact information you could have told them in the first place. A waste of time if you ask me.

Handing the development of housing in Canberra to the private sector was a huge mistake, and it’s not getting any better. Developers see every bit of dirt as something to maximise profit from, so up go the humungous houses, someone will buy them. Just not low income people. At the moment, affordable housing is in… Yass, Goulburn, Cooma. That’s the reality.