Submission: Senate Economic References Committee Inquiry into Affordable Housing

The Tenants' Union has made a submission to the Senate Economic References Committee Inquiry into Affordable Housing. The submission has two purposes. First, it reviews the current state and recent history of the housing market, with particular attention to the huge inflation in house prices over the past two decades; the causes of inflation in policy settings that encourage speculation; and the further effect of speculative inflation in the loss of affordable rental housing. Second, within the context of these wider problems of housing market policy, we consider the current state and recent history of the social housing system, with particular attention to the insufficient supply of social housing.

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