Andrew Bragg: Will Taxing Investors Make Housing Affordable?
About this episode
The episode discusses whether taxing property investors will make housing more affordable in Australia, featuring insights from Senator Andrew Bragg.
Will taxing property investors actually make housing more affordable—or simply change who owns the homes? Australia's housing affordability crisis is real, but the political response to it is anything but straightforward. In this episode of The Elephant in the Room , Veronica Morgan and Chris Bates sit down with Senator Andrew Bragg, Shadow Minister for Housing and Homelessness, for a robust discussion about Labor's changes to negative gearing, capital gains tax and property investment. Andrew argues that Australia's biggest problem isn't simply who owns property or how much tax investors pay—it's that we're not building enough homes. The conversation digs into the unintended consequences of restricting investment, the impact on housing supply, the role of SMSFs, the 5% deposit scheme, migration and whether government policies are inadvertently pushing people towards different forms of leverage. But criticism is only half the conversation. Veronica and Chris push Andrew on what should happen instead, exploring infrastructure funding, construction productivity, skilled migration, planning and regulation, the National Construction Code, tax incentives for new builds and ways to…
People in this episode
Hosts: Veronica Morgan, Chris Bates
Guest: Andrew Bragg
Topics covered
- housing affordability
- property investment
- negative gearing
- capital gains tax
- housing supply
- government policies
- infrastructure funding
Keywords
- housing market
- taxation
- investment
- construction productivity
- migration
- housing policies
- negative gearing
- capital gains tax
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Labor, Coalition
Places: Australia
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