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Anthony Albanese - How long? -2-
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Not sure about over regulation when so many ‘dog box apartments’ have been built
And thermal efficiency in housing will go a long way to ease climate issues
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Not sure about immigration either. Prices boomed when our borders were closed and we had zero immigration
And massively increase housing unaffordability, reduce supply, raise house prices and around and around we go again.
The full extent on construction code updates regarding thermal performance aren't yet known/realised in the market yet. So get prepared for things to get ALOT worse.
It was a brilliant idea to try and introduce sweeping changes in this regard at a time of record gaps in housing supply and affordability though.....
It's why I shake my head at those advocating so hard for climate change measures and then in the next thread blowing their top at cost of living and housing affordability. It's not the industry to be hard lining it in at the moment.
They are interrelated at the moment. With the only real solution to these two things being achieved at the same time being massive government intervention (i.e they pay for it all).
They don't.
They've been outstripping them for years, hence it's come to the point they aren't getting built and you have so many insolvencies with construction companies because they are working within a legal system designed to completely protect the end user (you, mum & dad) in every aspect.
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We need public housing, and lots of it. We need tradies, and lots of them. We need to stop the tax incentives prioritising real estate over other forms of investment.
The state and Commonwealth governments had the perfect opportunity to add to the public housing stock by building during covid if they wanted to keep the building industry going.
Instead they threw homebuilder grants around and stuffed the industry.
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Much of the building industry worked through covid
There was a bunch of money chucked at the industry to keep it going when money was being chucked all over the place. The building industry only has work to do when there are jobs, the homebuilder grants were so work didn't dry up.
It created a massive building boom. The trouble is it was beyond the capacity of the industry to handle.
There is a particular expensive street in an expensive area in Adelaide where just about every second house had a major renovation or a complete demolition and rebuild at about the same time. When was that? Covid. My envious brain tells me a lot of the owners got Jobkeeper for their businesses and didn't need it.
And don't get me started on all these 'necessary for my business' Ford Rangers that have suddenly come out of the woodwork since that big tax write-off was introduced as a pandemic stimulus.
Yeah there was a shitload of rorting of Jobkeeper but it put a lot of money in people's pockets when they otherwise you have had to apply for the dole. It tied people to their employer so the economy could get going again when the lockdowns were lifted.
Jobkeeper was panic policy to deal with a black swan event.
When in doubt, spray money around.
The impact of the covid support was a big reminder of the potency of expansionary fiscal policy during a downturn and a big finger to those academics who think it's ineffective in a floating exchange rate regime.
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