Having finally stared down Greens resistance in the final sitting week of the year, the Albanese government looks set to tick off the last of its 2022 housing commitments in need of parliamentary approval.
Like most of Labor’s other housing measures, the Help to Buy and Build to Rent tax reform initiatives are rather narrowly targeted and quite modest in scale.
But although no one is claiming them as silver bullets, both can be fairly justified as sensible efforts to address widely perceived housing pressure points: namely, home ownership affordability and private rental housing quality.
