Policy Submissions
Our submissions to parliamentary inquiries and other government consultations. We engage directly with the policy processes that translate research into reform.
Inquiry into Productivity in Australia
Our position is clear: the Abundant Housing Network Australia wholesale opposes the creation of a National Settlement Strategy. Such a strategy is flawed from first principles, and its proponents lack both evidence of its alleged benefits and viable methods for its implementation.
Inquiry into the Operation of the Capital Gains Tax Discount
The Abundant Housing Network Australia supports the Committeeʼs move to reduce the Capital Gains Tax discount.
Productivity Commission's draft 'Creating a more dynamic and resilient economy' report
Reducing the complexity and regulatory burden in Australia's homebuilding sector can, will, and must play a foundational role in improving the dynamism and resilience of our economy.
Inquiry into Victoria Planning Provisions amendments VC257, VC267 and VC274
If there is a single takeaway from our submission it should be this: that these reforms are not radical. Rather, they represent common- and best-practice in planning from around the country and the world, and work predominantly to correct the devastating consequences of previous planning interventions.
Inquiry into the supply of homes in regional Victoria
Planning restrictions are not just a problem for Greater Melbourne—they're a problem across our entire state, including Ballarat, Mildura, and Castlemaine.
SRL East Draft Precinct Plans
The SRL Authority should amend the Public Benefit Uplift framework to include options such as cash contributions to the Social Housing Growth Fund. The SRL Authority should draw these options from the existing Development Facilitation Program. This will ensure the SRL Precincts are able to maximally boost community and public housing stock for the Victorians who need it most.
The Brick Book
Australia’s leading pro-housing advocates unveil The Brick Book, a shovel-ready guide for the next government can fix the housing crisis
Draft Infrastructure Victoria 30-Year Strategy
We broadly endorse the bold and necessary policy directions suggested in the draft 30-year strategy—especially the recommendation to upzone around existing infrastructure, but caution about mandatory inclusionary zoning.
Plan for Victoria
It is time for a planning system that, across all of Melbourne and indeed all of Victoria, says yes in its backyard.
Inquiry into Climate Resilence
As the effects of climate change begin to induce more frequent and extreme weather conditions, it is imperative to make our housing and communities more resilient to these significant challenges.
Inquiry into the National Housing and Homelessness Bill 2024 (No. 2)
The Abundant Housing Network Australia would like to thank the Senate Standing Legislation Committee on Economics for the opportunity to provide comments on this private memberʼs bill.
National Urban Policy
It's time to make urban planning accountable – 14 recommendations for better Australian cities.
Inquiry into Local Government funding and services
Getting to a more fiscally sustainable and pro-growth local government sector.
Minimum Standards for Rental Properties and Rooming Houses
YIMBY Melbourne strongly endorses the new Minimum Standards for rental properties and rooming houses. But loopholes need to be closed, and better information needs to be made available for renters.
People’s Commission into the Housing Crisis
Everybody’s Home has been a strong advocate and ally in highlighting the imperative of increasing Australia’s ambition to build more community and public housing—which is often referred to via its umbrella term, social housing SH. Much ink has been spilled in underlining how dire the housing crisis is and how little help all levels of governments have provided through the direct provisioning of housing to those who need it the most.
Vibrant Brunswick
Inquiry into the rental and housing affordability crisis in Victoria
For a bigger, better, and more sustainable Melbourne, housing abundance, via inner-city densification and building up, rather than out, is the only viable path forward.
Inquiry into the worsening rental crisis in Australia
Our submissions substantively address actions that can be taken by governments to reduce rents or limit rent rises and factors impacting supply and demand of affordable rentals in the terms of reference.
Inquiry into Land Transfer Duty Fees
We extend our strong support for replacing current land transfer duty fees with a broad-based tax on the unimproved value of land.