Underquoting prices out buyers before bidding begins
Buying a house during a housing crisis is already extremely difficult, time consuming and expensive. Now imagine, you’ve worked out your budget, got pre-approval for a loan and you’ve found your dream house listed online, within your price range. Only, when you turn up to the auction, you’re priced out of the place before bidding […]
Make Housing Cheaper & Taxes Fairer
Housing and land taxes need to be fairer. The cost of housing is simply too high. Things like stamp duty and land taxes make mortgages more expensive for people already struggling with cost of living pressures. They also raise house prices and lock down the market, making it harder for older people to downsize and […]
Rent Reforms: Know Your New Rights
If you rent in Victoria, things are about to change big time. For too long, landlords and real estate agents have had ALL the power. They’ve been able to jack up rents, charge ridiculous extra fees, and kick people out with barely any notice. But thanks to massive pressure from renters and a huge push […]
Rental Horror Storries
We’ve all heard – or lived – rental horror stories Houses that have no insulation, hotter on the inside than it is outside. Houses that only have enough hot water for one short shower a day. Houses that have shorting electricity circuits, leaking water or even gas. Houses that have all of these issues, that […]
Development of Ivanhoe Water Tank Site Needs to Benefit Community
The Ivanhoe Water Tank site is a prime location of government owned land with beautiful green space and mature red gums. The Labor government is currently planning to build 275 new homes on the site. We need to make sure these will be social, affordable and genuinely servicing the local community, not just property investors. […]
41 Less Public Homes in Bell Bardia Estate
Labor’s plan for the Bell Bardia Estate in Heidelberg West involves reducing the number of public and community homes by 41. They have demolished 94 existing public homes and are only rebuilding 53 community homes, leaving the rest to the private market. In this time of intense housing stress, and long waiting lists to access […]
Short stays can’t stay
Regulating short stay accommodation like Airbnb is a key step to addressing our country’s housing crisis. Airbnb’s ensure many of the houses in our state are empty, despite house prices soaring, unlimited rent increases and housing supply falling below demand. We need to unlock these houses so they can be lived in all year round. […]
Housing is human right
Safe, secure, accessible and affordable housing are the key foundations on which social and economic wellbeing are built. A recent report shows that 76% of renters are living under housing stress, meaning that more that 30% of their income is spent on their home. As a result 63% of these households are sitting in the […]
Affordable Housing in Greensborough
In Parliament I called on the government to build public and affordable housing in a prime location in Greensborough, a site currently slated to just be a carpark that could also have housing built on top of it. We should be fully utilising this land to ensure more housing is built for the residents of […]
