Australia's housing policy has a rich history of public investment, initiated by various governments over nearly 30 years, to address housing affordability and social needs. Despite challenges and resistance, these interventions significantly boosted home ownership and eased rental pressures, influencing current tax reforms.
At WUF13 in Baku, Middle East and North Africa housing discussions moved beyond construction to focus on resilience, dignity, and social stability, linking policy with employment and climate adaptation.
Hong Kong lawmakers have called for a rethink of a government scheme to develop homes for the elderly, days after the city’s second largest public housing provider revealed it would stop building homes targeting senior residents for the coming 10 years. Lawmaker Andrew Lam Siu-lo of the Legislative Council’s housing panel said on Monday that the government had not been proactive enough in formulating a comprehensive elderly housing policy, urging authorities to provide new incentives for...
The Institute for Fiscal Studies found that the Conservatives' Help to Buy scheme primarily benefited high-earners in the top 10%, accelerating housing and wealth inequalities. Rather than helping people onto the property ladder, the policy helped already fortunate buyers accumulate wealth faster or purchase more expensive properties. The study adds to previous findings showing the scheme failed to address structural housing costs and represented a lost opportunity to invest in social housing or council building programmes.
