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Election special: Home is where the votes are

  • 10/05/2022
  • Author Jimmy-T

With Australia’s political parties throwing promises of cash around like lottery winners who forgot they didn’t want publicity, our national housing crisis has been one of the more significant targets…

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    Podcast: Woman who married her cat – the facts

    • 03/05/2022
    • Author Jimmy-T

    Sometimes the fur flies at weddings, and things can certainly get catty between landlords and tenants but, as we explore in this week’s podcast, a woman has taken things to…

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      Covid housing response ‘fast but patchy’ – report

      • 08/04/2022
      • Author Jimmy-T

      National and state governments’ housing policy responses to the pandemic were fast and mostly effective but too often it was left to landlords and tenants to carry the weight of…

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        Pet-friendly housing helps everyone, says report

        • 22/02/2021
        • Author Jimmy-T

        A new report backed by six Australian universities has concluded that having pets is good for both tenants and landlords. However, even though more than 60 per cent of Australian…

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          Profits of doom – can we afford not to build affordable housing?

          • 10/05/2019
          • Author Jimmy-T

          In the heat of an election campaign when the threat to property investors’ tax breaks if Labor wins power is seen as a fundamental challenge to both house prices and…

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            Roundup: Something fishy when they say we live like sardines

            • 12/12/2018
            • Author JD Thomson

            I’m not one to jump on Nimbys (Not In My Back Yard) – most of us think there should be shelters for the homeless, and halfway houses for former jail…

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              Co-op housing: working together to live better

              • 16/04/2017
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              James Brown, Chief Executive of Common Equity NSW, the peak body for housing co-operatives in the state, explains why Australia should be looking at a collective response to a community problem. Co-Op…

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                Finding positives in negative gearing

                • 13/03/2017
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                To many Australians, the connection between negative gearing and inflated property prices seems obvious.  But would rents rise if it was scrapped? Reader John Byrne thinks he has a solution.…

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