{"id":6971,"date":"2026-02-10T21:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T21:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=6971"},"modified":"2026-02-10T21:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T21:20:07","slug":"australian-government-spends-more-on-tax-breaks-for-landlords-than-social-housing-homelessness-and-rent-assistance-combined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/02\/10\/australian-government-spends-more-on-tax-breaks-for-landlords-than-social-housing-homelessness-and-rent-assistance-combined\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian government spends more on tax breaks for landlords than social housing, homelessness and rent assistance combined"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Gemini said<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An analysis by the Australian Council of Social Service (Acoss) found that the Australian government spent $12.3 billion on property investor tax concessions in 2025, significantly exceeding the $9.6 billion spent on social housing and rent assistance combined.\u00a0This financial imbalance coincides with a record low in social housing availability, which has dropped to just 3.6% of all dwellings compared to over 5% in the 1990s. Housing advocates are now urging the government to phase out negative gearing and capital gains tax discounts to redirect those billions toward building more affordable community homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: January 29, 2026. <strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2026\/jan\/29\/australia-tax-breaks-landlords-more-spending-than-social-housing-homelessness-rent-assistance-combined\">theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gemini said An analysis by the Australian Council of Social Service (Acoss) found that the Australian government spent $12.3 billion on property investor tax concessions in 2025, significantly exceeding the $9.6 billion spent on social housing and rent assistance combined.\u00a0This financial imbalance coincides with a record low in social housing availability, which has dropped to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":6973,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-socio-economic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6971"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7129,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6971\/revisions\/7129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}