Comment by frollogaston
2 days ago
What do you propose instead to allow younger people to buy homes, and if it were implemented, why would young people still want to buy a home under those rules?
2 days ago
What do you propose instead to allow younger people to buy homes, and if it were implemented, why would young people still want to buy a home under those rules?
I propose construction approvals be managed by a higher government level than the local council which has so far resulted in disastrous outcomes.
At the state level, planning can be done for the benefit of the whole city. Entrenched groups of property owners holding inner city areas hostage won't be able to push young people to the outskirts where there is no PT, schools or facilities. Medium and high density buildings would be able to be built where they make the most sense, not just where there is the least political resistance.
Young people want to live near jobs, transport, and entertainment. But those areas are currently locked up by property owners preventing construction of appropriate housing.
You're saying young people are pushed to outskirts, but it seems like you mean they can only buy there, and others are renting. Otherwise, there's no way boomers just occupy the entire main part of the city, there aren't that many of them.
So if you enabled them to buy the more desirable homes instead of merely renting, where in this are they actually benefiting from doing so?