A WA Liberal Government will raise the stamp duty exemption threshold from $450,000 to $550,000 and extend the concession threshold from $600,000 to $700,000.
Unlocking 100,000 homes with a $500 million investment in vital infrastructure, such as sewerage, roads and water – increasing housing supply to put downward pressure on housing costs during Labor’s cost-of-living crisis.
Building partnerships between government and the not-for-profit sector to better leverage opportunities to deliver housing for our most vulnerable.
Deliver critically needed accommodation in our regions.
Make it easier for older Western Australians to downsize.
35,000 people on the housing waitlist, up 18%
Rough sleepers up 113.8%
Homelessness up 8%
Median rental price up 76%
Labor have failed to deliver adequate housing supply, and the results of their failure are evident across the housing continuum.
In the private housing market, too many Western Australians are forced to stretch their budgets to pay rising rent costs they can’t afford, if they can find a home to rent at all. Young families and other aspiring homeowners continue to face significant barriers to achieving the dream of home ownership.
Many Western Australians who own their own homes have experienced significant increases in the cost of housing, with rising mortgage repayments hitting their hip pockets hard every month.
Over their seven years in power, we’ve seen Labor’s response to the housing crisis range from ineffectual to actively making the situation worse.
Their untargeted, uncapped and poorly managed building stimulus threw the residential construction sector into disarray, leading to builder liquidations and incomplete homes for families.
Despite record immigration, WA Labor and their Canberra colleagues have failed to deliver the additional construction workers we need to build homes to support a growing population.
Instead, all the Cook Labor Government has delivered are band-aid measures that will make little real difference, leaving Western Australians to pay the price.
Our most vulnerable have been left to fend for themselves, with WA Labor overseeing pitiful growth in the number of social housing properties and selling off more public housing than was built in their first term.
In fact, in WA Labor’s first seven years in power, they delivered an average of only 1.3 new social homes per month while our population grew by hundreds of thousands. They have spent less on social housing than almost every other state.
As a result, the number of vulnerable Western Australians on the public housing waitlist has grown each year.
WA Labor have presided over an unprecedented scale of policy failures in both private and public housing.
Western Australians deserve more than to have to pay the price for Roger Cook’s policy failures, ineffective band-aid measures and inaction.
