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Why Super for Housing is a Bad Idea - Purplepingers (youtu.be)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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NOTE: Video sponsored by the ACTU

Key points

It would make house prices increase by more than the maximum amount people could withdraw
It would cost the government $1 trillion in the long run
It would leave people with $200k less in retirement savings
It would significantly affect the returns on all superannuation as funds would need to keep more cash reserves uninvested so it is available for withdrawal

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

So people remain excluded from property ownership, but hey, at least the economy will be ok

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't the economy going to even more shit than it is be worse for property ownership?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sorry, I was being a bit tongue in cheek there. The economy will continue to be shit for people who struggle to afford home ownership whether or not they can use superannuation to help get their foot in the door.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think the point is if you are trying to fix housing early withdrawal of super is not the answer for all the reasons given.

There are other solutions and it would take multiple policies working in tandom.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Sure, but by the time those solutions are in place, another generation of people will have been denied the chance to own property, which has generational consequences on economic and educational outcomes for those families.

The answer is short term relief combined with long term change. Denial of short term relief because of hypothetical long term strategies that aren't going to be implemented helps no one.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Super is not the short term relief you are looking for though..... More people floating around with more money would just push up the prices even more, offsetting any benefit from withdrawing super.

Now if we started talking about increasing supply perhaps, that would be a different story.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's just a stupid comment. You could take the 1 trillion dollars it would cost the Australia government and spend it on any number of things to make ownership easier.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

You could take the 1 trillion dollars it would cost the Australia government and spend it on any number of things to make ownership easier.

That's true. The issue is, they're not going to implement any of those ideas...

So people who can't enter the housing market remain fucked over, because the imperfect ideas that might actually get off the ground get set aside in favour of better ideas that will never see the light of day.