Labor goes back to the future on improved NRAS

Sunday 16 December 2018

History doesn’t repeat but it sure does rhyme. At Labor’s weekend conference, leader Bill Shorten announced a $6.6 billion package to facilitate 250,000 ‘affordable’ rental dwellings over the next decade. From The ABC:

Under the 10-year, $6.6-billion scheme, investors who build new properties would get a subsidy of $8,500 a year, on the condition they keep the rent at 20 per cent below market rates.

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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.