The Greens have beenpressuring Labor over its housing policies in a bid to connect with younger voters who will also be targeted by the opposition’s new assistant spokesman for housing affordability,Andrew Bragg.
The NSW senator,who was appointed to the role on Tuesday,promised the Coalition would also be releasing ambitious policies to increase the supply of homes without amending tax rules on negative gearing and capital gains tax discount.
“For younger and aspirational Australians,this is the number one issue and so we’ll have tangible options that can get people into houses,” Bragg said in an interview.
“We’ve always been the party of home ownership going back to[Robert] Menzies and I think the challenge is now very acute because of the constrained supply and the emergence of compulsory super.
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“We’re the only party that can thread the needle on housing because we’re not beholden to vested interests.”
Under the Greens’ plan,property developers would stand to make $2.2 billion in the first five years of the scheme alone to manage and maintain the properties,and billions more building them.