Prosper Australia’s latest Speculative Vacancies data update reveals a 16% rise – to 31,890 – in totally empty homes in Melbourne over the past year. This rise in empty dwellings has undermined the benefit from new housing supply coming online. Including a further...
Prosper members know how vested interests shape tax and housing policy in Australia. As high house prices continue to dominate the headlines, many remain sceptical of the “supply-side solutions” – or diversions – favoured by desperate politicians. Massive upzoning is...
Let tax reform drive your voting decision this election with the Prosper Australia 2025 policy scorecard.
Prosper Australia was proud to join with Per Capita and a host of other organisations across the community sector in presenting the 2025 Community Tax Summit. Held in the richly historic Trades Hall, the Community Tax Summit was a two-day conference that brought...
Supply targets alone won’t solve the problem - we need redistribution and tax reform Prosper Australia today condemned the punitive approach taken by the Allan government to address housing supply, calling the strategy a complete miss of the mark. “Our research shows...
Victoria’s new Housing Partnership shows a lot of promise. The devil will be in the detail. Prosper Australia unpacks the issues.
Prosper's latest report sounds a cautionary note for policymakers placing market supply at the centre of affordable housing policy. Report author, Dr Tim Helm, Prosper’s Director of Research and Policy, described the report, entitled “Melbourne’s pandemic rental...
Prosper provided feedback to the Commonwealth’s draft Housing Legislative Package – Housing Australia Future Fund Bill, National Housing Supply and Affordability Council Bill, and Amendment Bill which was on exhibition over Christmas. If enacted, these bills will give...
Planning deregulation, especially rezoning, has been repeatedly touted as a key policy solution to Australia’s eye watering house prices. The story goes that prices remain high because the supply of new dwellings in accessible, desirable locations has not kept pace...
A version of this article was first published in the Sydney Morning Herald If you believe that our growing rate of homelessness is a national shame, or you're worried that your kids will never become homeowners (or worse, never move out), then we are sorry to tell...