Tag: housing

  The Australian Government’s “Help to Buy Housing Equity Scheme”, much more harm than help       At a time when the main problem facing the housing market is excess demand, the Australian Government puts forward a counter-productive joint equity first time buyer’s scheme that can only make matters worse. Introduction Just when it did not seem possible for Governments to design any more well-meaning but potentially disastrous home ownership schemes the “Government equity in first home buyer scheme”