Written Off The high cost of Australia's unfair tax system
- Everybody's Home January 2024
- 24pp
This report examines how over the last forty years, Commonwealth Government housing policy has been geared towards subsidising the private market, rather than directly supplying social housing. The report examines the impact of those policy settings by analysing the cost to the Federal Budget and looking at forgone revenues from capital gains tax and negative gearing tax concessions. It also explores the impact on housing affordability by tracing rates of housing stress to changes in policy and finds these shifts have led to the decline of affordability of homes to rent and to buy.