Housing News Digest
Housing News Digest
The Tenants' Union Housing News Digest compiles our pick of items from all the latest tenancy and housing media, sent once per week, on Thursdays.
Below is the Digest archive from November 2020 onwards. From time to time you will find additional items in the archive that did not make it into the weekly Digest email. Earlier archives are here, where you can also find additional digests by other organisations.
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Archive
New residents in fast-growing areas of Sydney to bear cost of rate rises
Msatt O'Sullivan The Sydney Morning Herald (Paywall)New residents in rapidly growing parts of Sydney will pay most of the more than $250 million in extra revenue that councils will be able to collect over four years after the NSW government accepted advice from the pricing regulator to align rates with population rises.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/new-residents-in-fast-growin…
# NSW, Housing market, Tax.The Bank Of Mum And Dad Goes Through The Roof!
(No paywall)We look at the latest DFA survey data relating to how parents are helping their kids to enter the Australian property market. The totals are growing fast, despite the risks. But there are a number of questions to be asked, and trade-offs to be considered. (Digital Finance Analytics Blog)
https://digitalfinanceanalytics.com/blog/the-bank-of-mum-and-dad…
# Audio Australia, Home ownership, Housing market.Here’s some money so you can save emissions and money on new homes in Victoria
Duncan Murray The Fifth Estate (No paywall)Builders and land developers in Victoria can still apply for a $4000 rebate for achieving a 7 star home rating, on up to four properties, in a move to accelerate change in line with the proposed new NCC 2022 standards.
https://thefifthestate.com.au/innovation/residential-2/heres-som…
# Australia, Climate change, Housing market, Minimum habitability standards.Shade: bringing planners and health professionals together to provide critical infrastructure
Susan Thompson, Liz King, Jan Fallding and Nicola Groskops. City Futures (No paywall)Increasingly communities are rightly demanding a built environment that makes it easy for everyone to be healthy and well as they go about their daily activities. This is related to growing understandings about the critical health supportive role of the places where we live, work, play, and how we travel from one to the other. COVID-19 has sharpened our collective focus on this issue, particularly the importance of local neighbourhood public spaces, walking paths, cycleways and green parkland for good health and wellbeing.
https://blogs.unsw.edu.au/cityfutures/blog/2021/10/shade-bringin…
# Australia, Coronavirus COVID-19, Health, Planning and development.If Chinese property giant Evergrande collapses, there's no telling the damage it could do in Australia
David taylor ABC (No paywall)The Evergrande debt crisis is not going away. It is, however, evolving. Financial markets still fear for the future of China's second largest property developer, though their focus has shifted.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-08/chinese-property-evergran…
# Australia, Housing market, International, Landlords and agents.Shade: bringing planners and health professionals together to provide critical infrastructure
Susan Thompson, Liz King, Jan Fallding and Nicola Groskops. City Futures (No paywall)Increasingly communities are rightly demanding a built environment that makes it easy for everyone to be healthy and well as they go about their daily activities. This is related to growing understandings about the critical health supportive role of the places where we live, work, play, and how we travel from one to the other. COVID-19 has sharpened our collective focus on this issue, particularly the importance of local neighbourhood public spaces, walking paths, cycleways and green parkland for good health and wellbeing.
https://blogs.unsw.edu.au/cityfutures/blog/2021/10/shade-bringin…
# NSW, Coronavirus COVID-19, Health, Housing market, Planning and development.London council to allow homeowners to return to regenerated estates as shared owners
Nathaniel Barker The Guardian (Paywall)A London council has approved a policy to allow homeowners to return to regenerated estates as shared owners.
https://www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/news/london-council-to-allo…
# International, Public and community housing, Estate renewal, Home ownership.Elon Musk announces Tesla headquaters move from California to Texas
ABC (No paywall)Tesla chief executive Elon Musk says he is moving his company headquarters from California to Texas, citing housing prices as a major issue for his employees. ... Musk said the cost of housing in the San Francisco Bay Area made it tough for many people to become homeowners, translating into long commutes.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-08/elon-musk-moves-tesla-hea…
# International, Housing affordability, Housing market.