00:00For the past 12 years, Amelia Bird has been a renter in Tasmania.
00:07Over that time, costs have risen.
00:09She now spends half her income keeping a roof over her head.
00:14You don't want to find yourself in a situation where you don't have a home
00:18and so it is really kind of trying to put that as that priority before everything else.
00:24It means there's little left over to save for a house deposit.
00:28It's hard though when you scroll through the listings and you see the prices
00:34and they just keep going up and up.
00:36Tasmanians have watched the housing market change dramatically over the past 10 years.
00:42The median house value has almost doubled from more than $315,000 to over $609,000.
00:49And for renters, the median rent across the state has gone up from $266 a week
00:55to close to $470 a week, an increase of 76%.
01:01And the rental vacancy rate in Hobart is less than 1%.
01:04There are over 5,000 households waiting for social housing.
01:08Priority applicants are waiting on average 97 weeks.
01:12The ABC's Your Say platform has heard from voters wanting housing reforms.
01:18Jane says, build social housing now.
01:22David says, stop suburban sprawl.
01:25Build more high density housing and improve public transport.
01:29And Anne says, put a levy on unoccupied houses.
01:33Holiday homes and Airbnb should attract additional taxes.
01:38Three years ago, the Liberal government committed to building 10,000 social and affordable homes by 2032.
01:45But counting towards that target are things like residential lots and crisis units.
01:51We think that there's better ways to assess how many homes need to be built.
01:57What the data shows is that social housing is not keeping up with population growth.
02:04This election, both major parties are promising to cut red tape so Tasmanians can build homes faster.
02:10And the Greens say they'll push for stronger limits on short-stay accommodation.
02:15Amelia Bird would like to see more government investment in cooperative housing.
02:20Having lived in two co-ops in Tasmania, the housing was so affordable.
02:26Opening the door to ideas to improve access to housing in Tasmania.
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