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Housing Secretary admits ‘there aren’t enough homes in this country’

Michael Gove said Prime Minister Rishi Sunak had asked him to look into helping first-time buyers get onto the property ladder.

The Independent UK

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk expected to announce major cabinet reshuffle

A major cabinet reshuffle is expected as the Queensland government faces scrutiny over its handling of youth crime, health and housing.

ABC News

Homelessness NSW calls for 'courage and ambition' to fix social housing crisis

'If you cannot afford to rent, sooner or later you are going to be homeless.'

Newcastle Herald

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4 ways to bring down rent and build homes faster than Labor's $10 billion housing fund

Treasurer Jim Chalmers is the first in decades to declare war on what he calls the “pain of rising rents”.

The Conversation

Get comfortable with vertical housing, NSW Premier Chris Minns says

Sydney is on the way up, with the NSW Premier calling for an end to the urban sprawl and a shift to more medium and high-rise housing.

The New Daily

Liverpool renters fear eviction despite leaks and mould in houses as new law delayed

ACRON Liverpool have said tenants are scared to challenge landlords

Liverpool Echo

Revealed: How Britain’s squalid housing crisis hits Black and Asian tenants hardest

Special Investigation: Mould covering windows and walls next to sleeping children. Ceilings collapsing feet away from tenants. Complaints ignored, evictions threatened. Nadine White hears the stories that lay bare the plight of non-white renters across the country

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Plans to abolish leasehold system reportedly dropped by government ahead of general election

Labour has accused the housing secretary of losing control of his department

Manchester Evening News

Michael Pascoe: Stop growing the landlord class and focus on ‘taboo’ public housing

That means large-scale investment in public housing to reduce the proportion of people crowding into the failed private rental market.

The New Daily

As the WA government commits $2.6 billion to social housing, here's how many homes that gets

Western Australia is going through what the government says is its biggest ever spend on social housing, at a cost of $2.6 billion. Here's what's being done, and why the question of whether it's value for money is complicated.

ABC News

States and territories guaranteed 1200 affordable homes

The government will amend its housing fund to guarantee 1200 affordable and social homes to each state and territory following negotiations with the crossbench.

The New Daily

$10 billion housing fund to include minimum build guarantee, in deal to win backing of Lambie Network

The Greens are unlikely to be moved by the federal government's agreement to build at least 1,200 homes in each state and territory through a $10 billion housing fund, saying they are still set to sink the bill.

ABC News

KEY CONSTITUENCY: BJP attempts to queer Siddaramaiah’s pitch by fielding Somanna

Few Assembly constituencies in Old Mysore region have attracted as much public attention as has Varuna in Mysuru from where former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah is facing an electoral challenge from Housing Minister V. Somanna.

The Hindu

Govt green light for riskier KiwiBuild projects to steady market

Ministers will accept greater risk for potential developments to head off a wider construction crash.

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Can Labor solve the housing affordability crisis while lucrative property tax breaks exist?

The Parliamentary Budget Office warns phasing out property tax breaks may "trigger a significant economic shock". That's why next week's budget is more focused on increasing the supply of housing rather than trying to make housing affordable by reducing house prices.

The Hindu

Congress seeks FIRs against Amit Shah for false claims, V. Somanna for offering bribe to rival candidate in Karnataka Assembly elections

The Congress petition accused Union Home Minister Amit Shah of claiming that ‘former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah had released all PFI workers who had earlier been kept in custody, and it was the BJP government that later had to locate and jail them again. The Indian National Congress has given an…

The Independent UK

Labour accuses Government of ‘abandoning’ first-time buyers

The opposition has promised to increase homeownership to 70% and build more social and affordable housing.

The New Daily

Fight over affordable housing puts renters in focus

Greens leader Adam Bandt is calling for a rent freeze and more investment in affordable housing but the prime minister says his proposed fund goes far enough.

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Irish Mirror

'No guarantee' that scrapping development levies will lead to lower house prices, Dáil hears

As part of the Government's latest intervention on housing, the Cabinet agreed to scrap developer levies for a year. This will save €12,650 per home on average

Irish Mirror

Irish comedian hits back at criticism about new Virgin Media housing crisis series

In the new series about Ireland's housing crisis comedian Michael Fry and Housing Minister Darragh O'Brien spend the day together - some people were not happy

Insider UK

Government vows £25 million housing boost for key workers in rural areas

The money will allow councils to acquire or lease properties which can be used to provide accommodation

Dublin Live

Housing crisis Ireland: Government 'will pay for building of affordable apartments'

The Cabinet is set to consider a package aiming to reduce the cost of construction and will increase grants for the renovation of vacant homes

The Independent UK

Gove puts pressure on shareholders over post-Grenfell remediation package

Housing Secretary Michael Gove has warned the shareholders of cladding companies over the provision of remediation work.

Irish Mirror

Fine Gael's John Paul Phelan retiring as TD in another blow for Leo Varadkar

Mr Phelan, 44, is the fourth Fine Gael TD to announce their retirement since the last general election, alongside Donegal TD Joe McHugh and Kerry’s Brendan Griffin. Former Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy retired in April 2021.

Reuters

Spain to help young citizens fly the nest with foreclosed homes

Spain is aiming to help millions of young adults still living with their parents to rent their own homes by offering them properties abandoned when its housing market collapsed a decade ago.

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