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Home ownership is the bricks and mortar that has helped Australia build a stable and vibrant society, but the opportunity to own a home in Australia is a challenge.
The latest home ownership rates report record lows of 61.4% with many Australians not seeing themselves ever realising their home ownership dream.
A well housed population is more productive, cohesive and healthy; the delivery of housing in all forms, across our cities and in our regions must be a priority.
In 2025 HIA calls on all political parties to:
Ensure home ownership is achievable for all Australians.
Support the delivery of a diverse mix of housing types by:
Deliver economic settings that allow residential construction businesses to thrive and that keep the dream of home ownership alive.
Let's Build
Making housing a priority means
Addressing skill shortages
Let's...
- Build our domestic workforce
- Reform the skilled migration system
- Promote trades as a career
- Target the retention of apprentices
- Ensure the construction industry is an industry of choice.
Removing the barriers to the supply of housing
Let's...
- Unlock land supply through planning reforms
- Reduce tax on housing
- Cut the red, white and green tape that drives up housing costs
- Improve housing data to make meaningful and well-informed decisions about housing supply
- Deliver the infrastructure needed to get land ‘shovel ready’ faster
- Focus on housing the regions
- Encourage innovation across the construction industry
- Support the transition towards net zero.
Establishing financial settings that encourage home ownership
Let's...
- Remove the restrictions on lending that has reduced competition among banks and often limits lending only to those that already own a home.
- Focus on a regulatory system that encourages the financial system to support the needs of the Australian people, particularly first home buyers
- Offer flexible financial arrangements
- Emphasise the part our financial institutions play to support borrowers, business and improve the housing crisis.
Australia is a wonderful country, but it is simply not good enough that we accept unprecedented levels of homelessness, impossible access to rental accommodation and that home ownership is now a thing of the past.Debbie Johnson | HIA National President
Our State and Federal leaders need to stop declaring the housing crisis someone else’s responsibility. They need to stop politicising housing and get past petty issues that tinker around the edges, at the same time providing them with an opportunity to avoid dealing with the most basic issue – we are not building enough homes.Jocelyn Martin | HIA Managing Director
Latest HIA election news and media
Coalition to accelerate approvals to unlock more housing supply
“A key reason why the cost of government fees, charges and taxes has increased by $160,000 over the past five years, is the increased time it takes to gain approval to turn farmland into a residential suburb,” stated HIA’s Chief E...
Apr 25
New home building remains at decade lows
“There were 168,050 new homes that commenced construction in 2024, which remains at its lowest levels in over a decade,” stated HIA Chief Economist Tim Reardon.
Apr 25
Beyond FHB Grants: The ‘Hard-Smart’ Policy Australia Needs
In the short term, the only meaningful way to increase housing supply is through government policies that directly reduce the cost of bringing a new home to market, that is, home-buyer grants offsetting other government taxes.
Apr 25
1.2 million homes achievable with these policies, and further reforms
“The policy proposed today by the Hon. Peter Dutton MP, would increase the volume of new homes commencing construction and could be sufficient to achieve 1.2 million new homes commencing construction over a 5 cycle,” stated HIA ma...
Apr 25
ALP policies will increase volume of new home building
“The Housing Industry Association (HIA) welcomes today’s important housing announcement by the ALP to implement major structural reforms to address the nation’s housing crisis,” HIA Managing Director Jocelyn Martin said today.
Apr 25
Increased infrastructure investment needed to support the delivery of greenfield housing NSW
“HIA calls on the state and federal governments to invest in the delivery of the essential infrastructure needed to unlock the construction of thousands of new homes in Greater Sydney and regional areas,” said Brad Armitage, HIA E...
Apr 25
Home approvals rising but structural reforms needed to meet 1.2 million homes
Apr 25
Industry let down again
“More must be done to uncover and stamp out the unlawful behaviour that has been allowed to fester in the construction industry,” said HIA Managing Director Jocelyn Martin.
Mar 25
Federal Budget must double down on last mile infrastructure funding
The Housing Industry Association (HIA) welcomes the Federal Government’s commitment of $304.3 million to support housing development in NSW, unlocking nearly 60,000 new homes. Investment in essential infrastructure is a vital step...
Mar 25
Taxes and regulatory costs continue to damage Victorian housing affordability
Today, HIA has released a report commissioned from the Centre for International Economics (CIE) on Taxation of the Housing Sector. This Report is an update to the work undertaken in 2019.
Mar 25
House and ‘tax’ package
Today, HIA released its Taxation of the Housing Sector (2025) Report, which is an update on the 2019 Report.
Mar 25
Industry needs funding certainty and long term commitment to HAFF
“The Housing Industry Association (HIA) is calling for bi-partisan support and a long term commitment from all sides of government to the Housing Australia Future Fund (HAFF) that extends beyond a single election cycle,” said HIA ...
Feb 25