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Hal Pawson

  • Non-Executive Director, CHC - Community Housing Canberra
  • Professor of Housing Research and Policy, UNSW Newsroom
Sydney
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Australia still needs a real national housing strategy

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By Hal Pawson, Chris Martin, Chris Martin
| pearlsandirritations.com
Labor’s capital gains tax and negative gearing reforms are a major step forward, but Australia still lacks the long-term national housing strategy needed to address social housing, rental security, energy efficiency and supply failures. The most remarkable aspect of the post-budget ruckus over the government’s proposed Capital Gains Tax reforms is surely the way that the housing dimension of the changes has – at least thus far – sailed forward with relatively little contention.
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Australia still needs a real national housing strategy

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By Hal Pawson
| Pearls and Irritations
Labor’s capital gains tax and negative gearing reforms are a major step forward, but Australia still lacks the long-term national housing strategy needed to address social housing, rental security, energy efficiency and supply failures. The most remarkable aspect of the post-budget ruckus over the government’s proposed Capital Gains Tax reforms is surely the way that the housing dimension of the changes has – at least thus far – sailed forward with relatively little contention.
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Boosting housing supply in Australia and Canada: much more than planning de-regulation

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By Hal Pawson, Steve Pomeroy
‘The national project to make housing more affordable is focused entirely on increasing supply [and] … The plan for meeting the supply target is to change planning laws and allow more density in middle suburbs…’ So wrote revered Australian economic analyst, Alan Kohler in 2025. Especially when it comes to the official narratives accompanying national housing policy in the 2020s, similar comments could be made for other countries including Canada and the UK, to name but two.
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