WHAT HOUSE YOU PROPOSE TO FIX THE HOUSING CRISIS

HOUSING FIRST

Enact housing as a human right, ensuring people get housing first.

Invest massively in public housing and collectively owned housing.

Stop the demolition and privatisation of public housing.

End the social housing privatisation model; community housing.

PRIORITISE HOUSING FOR ALL

Ensure that everyone has access to safe, stable, and affordable housing before allowing individuals to own multiple properties.

Establish emergency relief villages to provide immediate shelter for those in need while more permanent public housing is built.

Encourage and support communities in taking care of and rehabilitating abandoned homes to increase available housing stock.

MAKE HOUSING AFFORDABLE

Make affordable housing truly affordable and consistent by basing the rent payable on household income at no more than 20%.

Implement rent freezes and caps.

Provide land back and housing reparations for First Nations people.

STRENGTHEN RENTERS’ RIGHTS

End no-grounds evictions and probationary rental agreements.

Increase rent-to-buy options.

End discrimination in the private housing sector.

TAX REFORM

End property investor and landlord taxpayer handouts and concessions, including:

• Phase out negative gearing.
• End capital gains tax concessions.

Add a vacancy tax on empty and disused housing.

Tax and regulate short-term rental accommodation (e.g., Airbnb) like the business it is.

COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT

Enact an inclusive and democratic process of community meetings (i.e., Citizens’ Assemblies) where the input of the community genuinely informs any refit, refurbishment, and redevelopment plans, as well as all development plans in a local region.

Convene Regional Citizens’ Assemblies to engage the community in preserving publicly owned land and involve them in decisions regarding its usage, particularly focusing on housing solutions and community spaces across a region.

House You advocates for a national housing-first policy that ensures everybody has access to housing as a basic human right.

We stand for community-led responses to ending the housing crisis, which will include deliberative democracy assemblies to deliver housing as a right for all. By bringing together expert input, government and sector transparency, and community participation, we can collectively develop a vision and roadmap for housing everybody.

Community empowerment is the only way forward, and we will continue advocating for it in our pursuit of housing justice.