A SOUTH Australian builder is tackling Queensland’s housing affordability crisis head on with a range of homes priced from a low $75,000.
The award-winning builder, Rivergum Homes, set up shop in the Seabank building, on Southport’s Marine Parade, in December and just days ago opened its first Queensland project homes, at Hervey Bay. read more
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With the after-shocks of the past interest rate rises still being felt by many home buyers and the real impact not fully clear until the next quarterly figures, it is a great relieve for many that the RBA (Reserve Bank of Australia) has decided to hold further increases – well, for now anyway.
Given the [...]
A RADICAL plan to solve Victoria’s housing affordability crisis by putting shipping containers in caravan parks has infuriated social welfare organisations.
Macroplan Australia managing director and prominent urban planner Brian Haratsis said shipping containers could be located on public land or in caravan parks, providing cheaper housing for those locked out of the property market.
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Solution to Housing Shortage and Affordability .
In the middle of the 1990s, Skanska and IKEA began a partnership with the intention
of building high quality homes for just about everyone. The result is the BoKlok flat – high quality homes at a price that people can afford - and Live Smart @ Home is now delighted [...]
People who cannot afford to rent or buy suitable homes have been locked out of public housing because of a drastic fall in national funding, a Sydney conference has heard. The conference, organised by affordable housing lobby group Shelter New South Wales, is focusing much of its attention on the State Government’s plan to reform [...]
By making them more expensive. How often does an inquiry dominated by members of the Coalition sledge one of the Coalition’s own programs? The last time it happened was over the Access Card. That program was so disorganised, so counter to its stated aims and growing so much like Topsy as to be impossible to [...]
The poor run of housing numbers continued with housing starts for the March quarter down 3.3 per cent on a seasonally adjusted basis.
According to Australian Bureau of Statistics figures released today, new home starts decreased to a level of 38,928. Detached house starts decreased by 5.4 per cent to 25,997 while multi-unit [...]
When housing affordability is raised in the media, the story is invariably about how hard it is for first home buyers to plant a foot on the property ladder. But the real housing affordability crisis is among those not even in the hunt for home ownership, according to Associate Professor Kath Hulse and Professor [...]
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Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says Australia needs one million new homes over the next six years to keep up with estimated population growth.
Mr Rudd spoke at a Housing Industry Association (HIA) conference on Friday, where he also released a paper detailing his government’s new rental affordability scheme.
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It was I think former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan (Lord Stockton) when asked “What drives politics’” responded by saying “Events, dear boy, events”. Politicians are essentially judged on how well they manage them. Some succeed – others fail.
Going forward – it is going to be an extremely testing time for politicians – as [...]
