Senate Select Committee on Intergenerational Housing Inequity [Audio Only] - Melbourne, VIC (part 2 of 2)
9 July 2026
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Senate Select Committee on Intergenerational Housing Inequity Australian Parliament
00:00 - 00:03
Speaker 56
And thanks for appearing today. Thank you, chair. Thank you.
00:03 - 00:39
Speaker 6
Thank you, senators de Liga. I've got a few more questions, if I may. I wanna go to your submission. Mhmm. And you you agree with much of the evidence we've received about it becoming harder to get on the property ladder for younger people and increasingly expensive to service a mortgage.
You say it on Page two. And then go to the declining rate of homeownership. In the early '80s, 70% of those in the early '30s owned their own home. Share now has slumped to 50%. And similarly, when we look at renting, the share of renters has doubled over the past forty years.
00:39 - 01:07
Speaker 9
I'm wondering what your views are about those shifts and their impact on productivity. Does increasing precarity in housing for this coming for this generation, for more recent generations, is that something that we should be concerned about? Is it a real phenomenon? What's the relationship of housing insecurity and less housing certainty on productivity?
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