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Tuesday, December 05

Child care, emergency workers hit hardest by rental crisis, report says

Essential aged care, child care, hospitality, postal and freight workers are being priced out of the rental market across Australia with the average employee forced to spend around two thirds of their income on housing.

Safe as houses: Government slashes land tax to ramp up rental investment

Land tax will be halved and the foreign land tax surcharge scrapped for investors committing to ‘Build-to-Rent’ developments, in a move that promises to deliver more affordable homes on a mass scale.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has launched her new youth crime bill. (AAP Image/Darren England)

What kept you? Housing reveals government too slow to respond to a crisis

The Palaszczuk Government has finally yielded to the obvious – the state has a housing crisis – but its response showed that too often it has to be shamed into making decisions.

Demolition job: Auditor-General's wrecking ball report on social housing failures

The waiting list for social housing in Queensland has exploded 78 per cent in the last four years, with the Department of Communities, Housing and Digital Economy unable to properly account for nearly 40 per cent of applicants in need of a home.

It’s a lock-out: Queensland rural housing crisis threatens to put hand-brake on regions

Chronic rental property shortfalls in areas of rural Queensland are putting jobs and industries at risk, dividing opinion as community leaders call it a crisis and real estate agents hail conditions as “the best on record”.