Lobby Your MP on Housing Affordability

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Re: Housing affordability

I invite you to consider the issue of housing affordability. Many people are priced out of the market and unable to buy their first home.  This deprives people like myself of full citizenship in this property owning democracy.

Please do not underestimate the frustration and anger of those locked out of the housing market.

Prioritising speculators over home makers has very serious negative consequences for economic activity, national savings, small business sustainability, community cohesion and the birth rate.

Specifically, I ask you to:

 - RENOUNCE introducing a First Home Buyers Grant scheme, as this inflates the price of housing by at least the size of the grant and merely benefits home sellers.

 - END the negative gearing of residential property investing except on newly constructed houses which add to supply.

 - REMOVE Stamp Duty, a vile toll that benefits life-long property investors relative to new buyers.

 - CREATE a genuinely informed property market by mandating the Australian Bureau of Statistics to provide timely, accurate and unbiased property sales information.

 - MAKE property unattractive to speculators by introducing the Dr Ken Henry-recommended federal Land Value Tax.

While I am only one of the tens of thousands of voters in your electorate, this issue is of fundamental importance to me.  Your observed behaviour will guide the way my vote is cast.