Housing Addicts? How the 'Australian Dream' Turned into a National Nightmare |
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| Author:
| Zelinsky, Misha |
| Editor:
| Dyrenfurth, Nick |
| ISBN: | 978-0-646-97094-3 |
| Publication Date: | May 2017 |
| Publisher: | John Curtin Research Centre Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Pamphlet |
| List Price: | AUD $9.99 |
Book Description:
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With housing affordability looming as one of the political hot topics of 2017, Misha Zelinsky's Housing Addicts? provides a timely critique of the Australian housing market. In this lively and thoughtful John Curtin Research Centre essay, Zelinsky argues that the present housing market reflects a dangerous public policy failure where a worthwhile national aspiration - the so-called 'Australian dream' of owning your own home - has combined with generous tax concessions, poor government...
More DescriptionWith housing affordability looming as one of the political hot topics of 2017, Misha Zelinsky's Housing Addicts? provides a timely critique of the Australian housing market. In this lively and thoughtful John Curtin Research Centre essay, Zelinsky argues that the present housing market reflects a dangerous public policy failure where a worthwhile national aspiration - the so-called 'Australian dream' of owning your own home - has combined with generous tax concessions, poor government planning and a lack of investment imagination to pose a serious threat to our 'fair go' economy and society. Housing Addicts? is an impassioned case for saving the Australian dream from the national nightmare it has increasingly become.