Meanwhile, massive taxpayer subsidies and incentives for property investment are geared towards creating demand rather than supply. These subsidies also continue to benefit landlords over tenants, and people who can afford to buy investment properties over people that have been waiting for years on the public housing waiting list. The Greens have a plan to address housing affordability across the entire spectrum, by housing the homeless, building more social housing, affordable rental properties, student housing, improving and protecting the rights of renters, and trialling innovative home-ownership schemes.
in favour of efficiency in government/administration, for example by restructuring civil service or improving bureaucracy