The Housing Budget Promised More But Delivered Less

Is Australia's Housing Strategy Actually Making The Housing Crisis Worse? The Albanese Government says its Budget is tackling housing affordability and helping first home buyers. But the latest evidence tells a very different story. Building approvals are falling, first home buyer activity is weakening, rents are rising and confidence is deteriorating — while Australia remains well behind the pace required to deliver 1.2 million new homes. In this episode, Hotspotting examines the latest ABS housing data, property prices, investor activity, first home buyer trends and the Government's housing supply target to uncover what is really happening in the Australian property market. The housing crisis is fundamentally a supply problem. So why are the policies designed to fix it coinciding with fewer homes being approved and built? Listen now and follow the evidence.