Housing Policy

A subdivision in a South Australian town with a severe housing shortage is stopped by the Native Vegetation Council because of the diversity of plant species on the property. Three rare animals may also live there.

A mining boom and a government scheme to house its workers has made renting a home in this Northern Territory town almost impossible.

Renters searching for affordable housing have been at the forefront of Australia's housing crisis. But landlords say bad tenants and state-based reforms are making it tough for them too.

Researchers estimate 440,000 older households in Australia will be without suitable housing by 2031. A 56-year-old central Victorian woman is already experiencing the pain.

You have to build up to stop building out. But can higher housing density bring about affordability?

Queensland's Residential Tenancies Authority could be facing a shake-up after issuing just four fines in the past year despite identifying hundreds of offences by landlords and real estate agents.

Housework isn't something many people celebrate, but for war veteran Michael Reardon, it's symbolic of something much bigger — having a home. His is a good story amid a housing crisis in his state.

A family says a flat pack bungalow assembled in their Moe backyard gave their daughter the space she needed to complete high school. 

Vienna is often pointed to as a Western city that is getting its housing strategy right. So how do they do it? 

300 homes at Glenden, south-west of Mackay, are at risk of being bulldozed, with the mine company which built the town 40 years ago closing operations.

The report analyses consumer behaviour by extracting property market data from 12.1 million Australians.

As a wrecking ball looms over 300 homes in the small town of Glenden, the local mayor is pleading with the state government and rival coal mining companies to save the community.

Elderly residents being forced to vacate their accommodation are among a growing number of older people struggling amid the rental crisis. 

Dianne wants to join the hordes of people installing solar panels on their roofs. But as long as the Victorian government's her landlord that's not likely to happen.

Bond Homes employed 20 full-time staff and had been building transportable homes for nearly 30 years, which were ordered from across regional Victoria. 

Industry professionals say there are better interventions to help people break into the property market, but some fear axing the first home owner grant will send the "wrong message".

The council overseeing Apollo Bay, Otway, and Colac along the Great Ocean Road wants to cut red tape on people staying longer in caravans and tiny homes amid an intractable housing shortage.

PM Anthony Albanese is threatening the senate with an early election if it doesn't pass the housing policy.

The Greens are urging to government to negotiate on the minor party's call for rent freezes, as Labor threatens an early election on the bill.

The threat of an early election has done little to convince the federal Greens to abandon their opposition to the federal government's $10 billion housing future fund.

Some suburbs are now seeing as much as a 14.4 per cent growth in median house value.

The Victorian government will ban gas connections to new homes and residential subdivisions from January 1 next year.  

The Reserve Bank is hiking interest rates — and hitting borrowers — to fight high inflation, but data suggests the fight is being undermined by big-spending baby boomers.

NSW Planning Minister Paul Scully defends his decision to approve a 13,000-home development in the Wollondilly Shire with just 187 affordable dwellings, saying that adding more would be a cost to the developer.

Despite the most rapid interest rate rises in recent history and falling borrowing capacity, house prices are continuing to increase across much of the country.