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I absolutely agree that both parties' housing policies are just throwing fuel on the fire.
Assisting first home owners increases demand which increases pricing. The obvious beneficiaries of these policies are people that already own houses.
The solutions are addressing tax concessions like negative gearing and capital gains tax, increasing annual land tax, and providing concessions for tiny homes and pre-fab homes.
The best solutions are to stop foreign ownership completely, massively cut immigration temporarily (importing a million people a year when we have a housing supply crisis is literally pouring fuel on the fire), limit how many properties someone can own, remove negative gearing, and slash lots of red tape and costs associated with building multiple homes on peoples land.