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Vote Home: let's end the housing crisis by 2025

Vote Home: let's end the housing crisis by 2025

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The issue

Every night, more than 105,000 Australians don’t have a place to call home. That’s one in every 200 people.

House prices and rents keep increasing faster than incomes and there are over 200,000 Australians on waiting lists for public and community housing.

Yet despite this, current policy settings continue to favour tax breaks for investors over people owning homes. Cuts to affordable rental housing programs have made the situation even worse.

Rapidly rising house prices and lack of affordable rental properties affects all of us. We need to urgently build a plan to a brighter future.

That’s why this election we are building a movement of Australians who will ensure their vote this election is a Vote Home.

A Vote Home is a vote for a national strategy to address housing affordability and a vote for political parties to commit to end the housing crisis by 2025.

Will you join us? Sign this petition and let’s build this movement to end Australia’s housing crisis!

Let's tell all our political leaders that to secure our vote this election, they need to commit to a national strategy to address housing affordability and homelessness.

A Vote Home is a vote for a government committed to ending the housing crisis by 2025.

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The issue

Every night, more than 105,000 Australians don’t have a place to call home. That’s one in every 200 people.

House prices and rents keep increasing faster than incomes and there are over 200,000 Australians on waiting lists for public and community housing.

Yet despite this, current policy settings continue to favour tax breaks for investors over people owning homes. Cuts to affordable rental housing programs have made the situation even worse.

Rapidly rising house prices and lack of affordable rental properties affects all of us. We need to urgently build a plan to a brighter future.

That’s why this election we are building a movement of Australians who will ensure their vote this election is a Vote Home.

A Vote Home is a vote for a national strategy to address housing affordability and a vote for political parties to commit to end the housing crisis by 2025.

Will you join us? Sign this petition and let’s build this movement to end Australia’s housing crisis!

Let's tell all our political leaders that to secure our vote this election, they need to commit to a national strategy to address housing affordability and homelessness.

A Vote Home is a vote for a government committed to ending the housing crisis by 2025.

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The Decision Makers

Senator Richard Di Natale

Senator Richard Di Natale,

Leader of the Australian Greens

Responded

“Hi Everyone - I am proud of the work done by Senator Scott Ludlam and the Australian Greens to eliminate homelessness and address the housing crisis facing Australia. As petition signatories have noted, homelessness in Australia is a national tragedy. Every night, right here in one of the richest nations in the world, 105,000 Australians don’t have a place to call home. That’s one in every two hundred people. More than a quarter are children under 18. Seventy percent of young people who end up homeless are fleeing domestic violence or family breakdown. Instead of tackling this national disgrace head-on, the Abbott - Turnbull Government cut millions of dollars in funding for homelessness and housing affordability programs in their first budget. They’ve refused to adopt any target or commitment to reduce homelessness, abolished every affordable housing program in their first budget, and even axed peak bodies like Homelessness Australia and National Shelter. We have pledged to end homelessness and eliminate the massive public housing waiting lists within a decade, through the steps outlined in our roadmap. Commencing immediately, we have also pledged to doubling federal funding for homelessness services and to signing a new ten year National Partnership Agreement on Homelessness by investing an extra $827 million a year to provide ongoing security for this vital sector. We know that homelessness, affordable housing and our housing crisis demand a comprehensive response, and that’s what we’re providing. We will also ensure that power bills are reduced, that the rights of renters are strengthened, and that distortive, unfair tax breaks are removed from our system Read our full plan at http://greens.org.au/housing Our National Housing Roadmap We have an achievable plan that will ensure housing is within reach for everyone. • Reforming Negative Gearing – our proposal that negative gearing for future investments would end, with existing investments grandfathered. This would stop billions of dollars each year being used to unfairly subsidise property investors at the expense of housing affordability. Our plan to phase out Negative gearing would increase the revenue available to address the housing needs of all Australians, and would generate over $42 billion over ten years. • Capital Gains Tax Discount Reform - the current 50% discount on income earnt from investments should be removed to stop the structural unfairness in the tax system and benefits the wealthiest Australians. It would generate as much as $74 billion over the next decade, or $127 billion when combined with negative gearing reform. • Funding Homelessness Services - we are committed to doubling the federal funding for homelessness services at a cost of $507 million a year, and to signing a new ten year National Partnership Agreement on Homelessness (at a cost of $320 million a year), to provide ongoing security for this vital sector. • Renters' Rights - this package will deliver a better deal for renters by introducing a new national minimum standard for private rental tenancies and a funding package to help landlords meet those standards. It was developed in response to our Rental Heath Survey. • Increase Commonwealth Rent Assistance by 30% - This would equate to an increase of between $13-25 a week. • Renew Public and Community Housing - deliver clean power, lower electricity bills, and homes that are cheaper to run and more comfortable to live in, through a nationwide upgrade program for Australia's 421,000 public and community housing dwellings. • Our Public and Community Housing Supply Boost will end homelessness and cut housing waiting lists within a decade. • The Affordable Housing Finance Corporation is the Greens proposal for an innovative funding mechanism that will boost the supply of affordable housing. A vote for the Greens is a vote for the only party with the courage and vision to implement measures to ensure everyone who needs a home can afford one. Read our full plan at http://greens.org.au/housing Thanks to you all - Richard Di Natale & Scott Ludlam”

Senator Richard Di Natale

Senator Richard Di Natale

Leader of the Australian Greens

Responded

“Hi Everyone - I am proud of the work done by Senator Scott Ludlam and the Australian Greens to eliminate homelessness and address the housing crisis facing Australia. As petition signatories have noted, homelessness in Australia is a national tragedy. Every night, right here in one of the richest nations in the world, 105,000 Australians don’t have a place to call home. That’s one in every two hundred people. More than a quarter are children under 18. Seventy percent of young people who end up homeless are fleeing domestic violence or family breakdown. Instead of tackling this national disgrace head-on, the Abbott - Turnbull Government cut millions of dollars in funding for homelessness and housing affordability programs in their first budget. They’ve refused to adopt any target or commitment to reduce homelessness, abolished every affordable housing program in their first budget, and even axed peak bodies like Homelessness Australia and National Shelter. We have pledged to end homelessness and eliminate the massive public housing waiting lists within a decade, through the steps outlined in our roadmap. Commencing immediately, we have also pledged to doubling federal funding for homelessness services and to signing a new ten year National Partnership Agreement on Homelessness by investing an extra $827 million a year to provide ongoing security for this vital sector. We know that homelessness, affordable housing and our housing crisis demand a comprehensive response, and that’s what we’re providing. We will also ensure that power bills are reduced, that the rights of renters are strengthened, and that distortive, unfair tax breaks are removed from our system Read our full plan at http://greens.org.au/housing Our National Housing Roadmap We have an achievable plan that will ensure housing is within reach for everyone. • Reforming Negative Gearing – our proposal that negative gearing for future investments would end, with existing investments grandfathered. This would stop billions of dollars each year being used to unfairly subsidise property investors at the expense of housing affordability. Our plan to phase out Negative gearing would increase the revenue available to address the housing needs of all Australians, and would generate over $42 billion over ten years. • Capital Gains Tax Discount Reform - the current 50% discount on income earnt from investments should be removed to stop the structural unfairness in the tax system and benefits the wealthiest Australians. It would generate as much as $74 billion over the next decade, or $127 billion when combined with negative gearing reform. • Funding Homelessness Services - we are committed to doubling the federal funding for homelessness services at a cost of $507 million a year, and to signing a new ten year National Partnership Agreement on Homelessness (at a cost of $320 million a year), to provide ongoing security for this vital sector. • Renters' Rights - this package will deliver a better deal for renters by introducing a new national minimum standard for private rental tenancies and a funding package to help landlords meet those standards. It was developed in response to our Rental Heath Survey. • Increase Commonwealth Rent Assistance by 30% - This would equate to an increase of between $13-25 a week. • Renew Public and Community Housing - deliver clean power, lower electricity bills, and homes that are cheaper to run and more comfortable to live in, through a nationwide upgrade program for Australia's 421,000 public and community housing dwellings. • Our Public and Community Housing Supply Boost will end homelessness and cut housing waiting lists within a decade. • The Affordable Housing Finance Corporation is the Greens proposal for an innovative funding mechanism that will boost the supply of affordable housing. A vote for the Greens is a vote for the only party with the courage and vision to implement measures to ensure everyone who needs a home can afford one. Read our full plan at http://greens.org.au/housing Thanks to you all - Richard Di Natale & Scott Ludlam”

Malcolm Turnbull

Malcolm Turnbull,

Former Prime Minister of Australia

Malcolm Turnbull

Malcolm Turnbull

Former Prime Minister of Australia

Bill Shorten

Shadow Minister for the NDIS and Government Services

Bill Shorten

Shadow Minister for the NDIS and Government Services

Malcolm Turnbull,

Prime Minister

Malcolm Turnbull

Prime Minister

Bill Shorten,

Leader of the ALP

Bill Shorten

Leader of the ALP

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Petition created on 16 May 2016