Property investors targeted as political debate rages around housing affordability
Property investors are taking centre stage in a political wrestling match over the passage of the Government's Help to Buy scheme, with negative gearing, capital gains tax and stamp duty all subjected to debate around housing affordability.
Negative gearing is in the crosshairs of political parties wrestling for position in the debate around housing affordability. (Image source: Shutterstock.com)
Housing has stepped onto centre stage in the federal government policy arena, with funding of the Help to Buy scheme emerging as the political football around which different sides of the debate are trying to kick goals.
As they did when they extracted a series of housing policy concessions
when the Labor Government’s housing centrepiece, the Housing Australia Future Fund (HAFF), passed with a majority vote in the Senate in September, The Greens…
