13 - ALMANAC - A government housing campaign

At times in Australia's history, over the period nineteen forty-seven to nineteen seventy-six, the government provided up to a quarter of all new housing stock.

We state here but the broad brushstrokes, the granular data has been presented to previous inquiries, including by economists Saul Eslake in December twenty thirteen, and Cameron Murray in September twenty twenty-one.

It is tragic that such information has been heard over and over again by parliamentary committees, but still nothing has been done.

Relegating social housing to the free market has been the equivalent of spitting into the wind.

When policy was successful in the past, it was due to the government unapologetically taking a leading role in the process.

Other economists and historians, RMIT Emeritus Professor of Public Policy and the Social Economy, David Hayward being an excellent example, a better place to provide testimony on the achievements of such programs.

But the Citizens Party wishes to present options on the financial aspects of the questions being examined by the committee.

The history of our nation shows that the funding for a visionary housing development program is not a difficult matter financially, but it can be a very difficult matter indeed, politically, presenting a hurdle that has long blocked a return to a proper government role in housing development.

At times in Australia's history, over the period nineteen forty-seven to nineteen seventy-six, the government provided up to a quarter of all new housing stock.

We state here but the broad brushstrokes, the granular data has been presented to previous inquiries, including by economists Saul Eslake in December twenty thirteen, and Cameron Murray in September twenty twenty-one.

It is tragic that such information has been heard over and over again by parliamentary committees, but still nothing has been done.

Relegating social housing to the free market has been the equivalent of spitting into the wind.

When policy was successful in the past, it was due to the government unapologetically taking a leading role in the process.

Other economists and historians, RMIT Emeritus Professor of Public Policy and the Social Economy, David Hayward being an excellent example, a better place to provide testimony on the achievements of such programs.

But the Citizens Party wishes to present options on the financial aspects of the questions being examined by the committee.

The history of our nation shows that the funding for a visionary housing development program is not a difficult matter financially, but it can be a very difficult matter indeed, politically, presenting a hurdle that has long blocked a return to a proper government role in housing development.