housing

  • How Stamp Duty Is Holding Us Back

    How Stamp Duty Is Holding Us Back

    If just one state of Australia, New South Wales, scrapped its stamp duty on real-estate transactions, about 100,000 more Australians would move homes each year, according to our best estimates. Stamp duty is an unquestioned part of buying a home in Australia – you put your details in an online mortgage calculator, and stamp duty…


  • How Can We Turn the Australian Housing Crisis Around?

    How Can We Turn the Australian Housing Crisis Around?

    Households across Australia are struggling with soaring energy and housing costs and a lack of housing options. Mixed with a climate crisis, economic volatility and social inequality, it’s a potent set of policy problems. Australia needs a circuit-breaker – a bold national project to tackle the climate crisis and support households by shifting to a…


  • How Housing Is Driving Wealth Inequality in Australia

    How Housing Is Driving Wealth Inequality in Australia

    Compared to the rest of the world, income inequality is not particularly high in Australia, nor is it getting much worse – until you include housing. Rising housing costs have dramatically widened the gap between what Australians on high and low incomes can afford. Rising home prices paired with plummeting rates of homeownership are driving…