The ABC is hearing from people across Australia about the issues that matter to them this election campaign. Housing is firmly in the spotlight after both major parties announced significant policy details, yesterday.
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00:00Phil, what are the big issues that are informing your vote in the lead up to this election?
00:06I think housing security and being able to settle in an area for 10, 15, 20 years is
00:16definitely something I'd like to be able to look forward to and not have the constant
00:23worry about having to move if where I'm living is going to be sold or if say there's a rent
00:29increase that makes it not viable to live in anymore but I think that that general anxiety
00:39around housing I think is a kind of an underestimated and under appreciated aspect of the housing
00:49discussion by both political parties.
00:51And so we've seen some pretty big announcements in the housing space from both of the major
00:56parties in the recent weeks in the lead up to the May 3rd vote.
00:59Have either of those policy announcements influenced your vote at all?
01:03They both look like they are looking to subsidise demand and add even more inflationary pressure
01:09on housing whereas I think a lot of people that you speak to, at least in my personal
01:14life, they don't really see themselves being able to purchase a house unless there is some
01:20significant deflationary pressure on housing so like actual housing prices coming down not
01:26just increasing exponentially without any kind of disruption.
01:31And I think that's something that both parties or both major political parties don't want
01:36to talk about is the fact that unless there is some kind of deflationary pressure that it's
01:41just not going to be something that a lot of people are going to be able to attain.
01:45Housing ownership is not something people are going to be able to attain.
01:48When it's just you and your partner or your wife or whatever that's one thing but when
01:51you have a child that prospect seems again like a lot more kind of causes some level
02:00of pessimism which is not actually obviously something you want to be, not an outlook you
02:06want to have when you're about to have a kid.
02:09So yeah it's something like I'd like to have, it's an area where I think I'd like to have
02:14a lot more, be a lot more optimistic about but unfortunately I don't think the policies
02:19that are being offered or the solutions that are being proposed are going to actually address
02:23that, not only that material aspect of being able to actually afford the home but also the
02:29emotional aspect.
02:30I think a lot of people feel like they're kind of just like left on their own to deal with
02:34it and that there isn't a lot of, there isn't going to be a lot of assistance or a lot of help
02:38from government policy.