Brendan Coates . Articles Older women often rent in poverty – shared home equity could help some escape Many older Australian women face insecure futures. Those who are single, divorced or widowed are much more likely to suffer poverty, housing stress and homelessness. The lesson for Australia out of Victoria's property tax hikes: two out of three ain't bad Victorian treasurer Tim Pallas’s three-pronged strategy to raise an extra A$2.7 billion in property taxes over the next four years is a case of two out of three ain’t bad. Scott Morrison’s HomeBuilder scheme is classic retail politics but lousy economics Scott Morrison’s new housing stimulus package is straight-out retail politics. Money for social housing, not home buyers grants, is the key to construction stimulus There’s no doubt Australia’s construction industry is facing tough times. COVID-19 has caused migration to slow to a trickle. Some 2.6 million Australians have either lost their jobs or had their hours cut in the past two months. Many economists expect property prices to fall.
