Priced Out: An Index of Affordable Rentals for Australia’s Essential Workers
The findings help explain why so many essential industries are facing workforce shortages. Workers have been priced out of their communities.
The findings help explain why so many essential industries are facing workforce shortages. Workers have been priced out of their communities.
To meet the forecast demand, it is clear ‘hybridity’ of the housing system is essential.
The report notes young people are being locked out of a housing market dominated by richer, older men.
CCIWA’s ‘Stamping out stamp duty’ report builds upon widespread expert support, by the Henry Tax Review, ACOSS, St Vincent de Paul, UDIA, the OECD, the IMF and the Productivity Commission.
The report makes the case for the abolition of stamp duty on property transfers, and the introduction of a fairer, broad-based replacement tax on the property’s Gross Rental Value.