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Australian Political Parties Questioned About Critical Housing Issues

The Housing Industry Association of Australia approached all major political parties and asked the hard questions regarding critical issues like housing affordability, home ownership, infrastructure, immigration, land supply, skills and workforce participation, regulatory creep, the environment, planning assessment and delays, business red tape, industry support,  social housing and taxation.

Find our how each party responded to these critical policy issues

A week, it is said, is a long time in politics.

For voters, a five week Federal Election campaign can seem an eternity.
But the reality is that the major political parties have been in election mode for months.

Australians go to the voting poles this Saturday, armed with the media clips, radio grabs, television images and internet pieces that actually (somehow) stick in our minds. And Aussies take along their personal views and preferences.

The housing industry provides business and employment opportunities for all Australians.

• The housing industry delivers 160,000+ new residences each year across the nation.
• It builds 700,000 new bathrooms and 400,000 new kitchens.
• In all, this industry builds $80 billion in residential activity.
• Double that again in sales of white goods, carpet and furnishings, interior decorating and landscaping.
• $1 in every $20 spent in Australia goes through the housing industry.

If you design, build, demolish, assemble, manufacture or provide professional services, you work in the residential building industry.

1. What do the major political parties think about the housing industry?
2. What do they have to say about the key issues that impact on residential building activity?
3. Will the great Australian dream of home ownership be protected?

The Housing Industry Association of Australia asked the three major parties about their vision and their commitment to home ownership, housing supply, residential building activity and industry skills.

Housing affordability, infrastructure, land supply, skills and workforce participation, regulatory creep, planning delays, business red tape and taxation are critical policy matters that require urgent and co-ordinated attention, commitment and resourcing from the incoming Federal Government.

You can read the responses to the questions raised by HIA starting with the issue of primary importance ” housing affordability”

See Housing Affordability and the Australian Federal Government Election August 2010

Source: HIA Media Release

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