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Rudd's new land plan for housing affordability
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October 16, 2007 - 4:23PM

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Kevin Rudd has unveiled a new housing affordability plan in a bid to blunt the Coalition's tax momentum and steal a march on another crucial election issue.

In a visit to a new housing development at Ingleburn, on the outskirts of western Sydney, Mr Rudd sought to switch the election debate to housing.

He attacked Prime Minister John Howard for saying earlier this year that working families had never been better off, and rounded on Treasurer Peter Costello for suggesting there was no housing affordability crisis in Australia.

Mr Rudd said the cost of buying a new home had risen from four to seven times the annual average wage since 1996.

He accused the Howard Government of sitting on $6 billion worth of Commonwealth land, which could be released for sale to ensure more affordable land for first homebuyers.

The Labor plan would establish a National Housing Supply Research Council to earmark federal land for public release.

Departments would have to show cause each year why surplus land should not be released for sale.

"It's time we cut through the red tape on proposals such as this," Mr Rudd said.

Labor housing spokesperson Tanya Plibersek said the housing affordability crisis had deepened over the decade.

"The ordinary family home has become increasingly out of reach for the ordinary Australian family."

Under Labor's plans, land would be released provided it met three criteria: that it did not drive up the cost of surrounding homes, that it contributed to the amenity of the area, and that it generate jobs.

martinwang

好消息！

xyliu925

ingeer

Free more land, funding economic housing, that's proper way to ease affordability.

maylily01

Where the free land is? If it's too far from the city, do working people want to live there?
Anyway, it's the inner suburbs that have experienced the fastest growth in housing price.

jewar

记得blacktown的市长曾经说过那里有很多土地空着
没有开发商去开发

休

原帖由 jewar 于 2007-10-17 09:24 发表
记得blacktown的市长曾经说过那里有很多土地空着
没有开发商去开发

这说明发展商现在不看好blacktown

黑山老妖

有了地也要有人造房子才行。现在很多开发商手里拿了很多地，就是不造。。。你能拿它怎样？

philgu

原帖由 maylily01 于 2007-10-17 09:13 发表
Where the free land is? If it's too far from the city, do working people want to live there?
Anyway, it's the inner suburbs that have experienced the fastest growth in housing price.

That is exactly the point. It is easy to release the land but mostly likely they are not at the places people want to live. In my mind, all those political rhetoric will only work in the following cases.

1. manage people's expectation down. If you want to live close to the action (whether it is work or lifestyle), you need to make sacrifices - either choose a smaller or rundown place or save/work harder. Nowadays people have too much expectations. So townhouse or apartment living might be the future.

2. release more land in city's marginal areas. But it will only work if infrastructure & most importantly transportation is significantly improved - I mean really significantly. Or in the future, the work culture becomes so benign that it is popular for people to work from home.

3. regional centres. Rather than people commuting daily to CBD, there are more regional centres - e.g. Paramatta as an example. People live closer to where they work.

But being honest, I don't any of above to take hold in a big way in near future. Things move in turtle pace here. So the only thing will reflect the reality is well located properties will still go up in the foreseeable future. Big land release (there is no meaningful big land to be released in well located areas) will help but only to limited extent but not much soon.

I am quite puzzled by all those affordabilty debate. There was never an era people will say home ownership is easy. People will never ever say that. No matter how affordable that was in hindsight. Look at anywhere in the world, will any averge person tell you it is easy to own a home? I think it is just people's mentality.

大饼

Rudd 和霍华德都不是什么好鸟。在大选前惺惺作态。其实他们自己手里肯定握着不止两套房子，巴不得房价涨呢。

hrdkyscp

Rudd 傍了个富婆的说

bulaohu

原帖由 黑山老妖 于 2007-10-17 09:33 发表
有了地也要有人造房子才行。现在很多开发商手里拿了很多地，就是不造。。。你能拿它怎样？

澳洲政府卖地的时候，有没有多长时间内必须开发，否则收回的条款?

happysee

原帖由 philgu 于 2007-10-17 09:36 发表



That is exactly the point. It is easy to release the land but mostly likely they are not at the places people want to live. In my mind, all those political rhetoric will only work in the foll ...

同意. 其实房子的可承受力取决于人的欲望,很多人买得起小房子,但是想买大房子,所以觉得房价不能承受.

买房子啊

Kevin是个好人， 会讲广东话，支持他， 是时候买些建筑股了， 嘿嘿

黑山老妖

原帖由 bulaohu 于 2007-10-17 12:26 发表
澳洲政府卖地的时候，有没有多长时间内必须开发，否则收回的条款?

Mate, we are not in communist country. Once the land is sold it's private property. The government can't just "take" it back...

garysu

原帖由 买房子啊 于 2007-10-17 12:41 发表
Kevin是个好人， 会讲广东话，支持他， 是时候买些建筑股了， 嘿嘿

广东话？呵呵，kevin说的是广东话？

kevin说的这个，政府早念叨过了，没有新意，短期内没有作用

Jeff_666

释放土地没法解决居住危机，中国城市土地释放已经够多了，很多地方都没地造房了。但是房价只涨不跌。
澳洲只有控制每人购买房屋数量，压制炒楼的炒家，不然本质上无法解决平民买房问题。

maylily01

agree.

fanjin1976

原帖由 买房子啊 于 2007-10-17 12:41 发表
Kevin是个好人， 会讲广东话，支持他， 是时候买些建筑股了， 嘿嘿

拜托，他讲的是普通话，好不好？嘿嘿。。不过，他看上去是比较诚实的人。不像老霍。

相从心生。:si126:si151:si62