Do you think housing affordability policy will become a 2013 federal election issue?

Jonathan ChancellorAugust 4, 2013

So Sydney managed another preliminary auction clearance rate of 80% plus on the weekend.

According to Australian Property Monitors (APM), that's the fourth consecutive week of an 80% plus preliminary clearance rate.

And Property Observer readers were asked last week if Sydney could make it four weeks in a row.

Some 64% made the correct prediction.

That was a marked turn around on the 60% who didn't think it would get to its third consecutive week.

The first two weekend results were revised, after last auction results, to slightly below 80%, but the revision for the July 27 weekend was to 80.3%.

So later this week we will again ask if Sydney can continue the extraordinary 80% plus clearance rate run?

But today we ask:

{module Do you think housing affordability policy will become a 2013 federal election issue?}

Housing affordability supposedly ranks as a major issue among voters, according to the Auspoll survey, conducted between May 19 to June 21, when voters rated the importance of a list of public policy issues in the lead up to the 2013 federal election.

Some 84% said housing affordability was either quite important (39%) or very important (45%). Housing affordability was the fifth most important issue out of the 12 areas surveyed with the healthcare system of greatest concern(96%), followed by the economy (95%), crime and personal safety (94%), and then jobs and employment (91%).

Only 16% of those surveyed believed Australia was performing well when it came to housing affordability with 41% suggesting it was performing poorly.

Some 72% of those polled said they were unaware of either Labor or the Coalition having a clear plan to improve housing affordability.

 

 

 

Jonathan Chancellor

Jonathan Chancellor is one of Australia's most respected property journalists, having been at the top of the game since the early 1980s. Jonathan co-founded the property industry website Property Observer and has written for national and international publications.

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