Jas and Matt prefer Labor’s housing plan, but there’s a catch

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Behind Labor and the Coalition’s first home buyer schemes is a bid to lure voters to win marginal seat across the outer suburbs of capital cities.

Copy link Copied Copy link Copied Subscribe to gift this article Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Already a subscriber? Login Jaslyn Ackling and her fiancé Matthew Collins have spent more than a year trying to break into Sydney’s housing market, only to find themselves increasingly priced out as property values and deposit requirements climb higher. The couple, both white-collar professionals in their late 20s, have been renting in inner Sydney’s Rozelle for two years.

Like many of their peers, they’re growing frustrated with rising rents and a sense that home ownership is slipping further out of reach. Copy link Copied Copy link Copied Subscribe to gift this article Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Already a subscriber? Login Introducing your Newsfeed Follow the topics, people and companies that matter to you.



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