Barefoot Investor reveals the three ways to fix our housing crisis

• Scott Pape listed three ways to fix the housing crisis
• He claims skyrocketing rent has caused women to stay with violent partners
• READ MORE: Former cop’s no-nonsense simple solution to the deadly domestic violence epidemic

The Barefoot Investor has revealed the three radical ways the government can immediately fix the housing crisis.

Scott Pape shared his insight as he weighed in on the domestic violence crisis and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s policies.

Pape argued many women were being forced to live with their abusive partners because they had nowhere to go due to the housing shortage and high prices.

He offered several key solutions to immediately fix the real estate market that he bluntly labelled a ‘dumpster fire’.

‘So, how could the government really address it?’ Pape wrote in a column for the Daily Telegraph.

The Barefoot Investor, Scott Pape (pictured), listed the three steps the Albanese Government can take to solve the housing crisis

‘First, by temporarily limiting immigration while the rental market is in crisis.

‘Second, by cutting negative gearing and the 50 per cent reduction on capital gains tax (CGT) for investors.

‘And finally, by funnelling those tax savings into building public housing that looks after the most vulnerable people in our society – women and their kids who are fleeing family violence.’

He issued the three demands directly to Mr Albanese, writing: ‘That sounds pretty bold to me, Albo.’

His recommendations followed a massive outcry from Australians about the high rate of domestic violence, which Pape described as ‘Port Arthur-like’.

He recalled statics stating a woman is killed by a partner every four days in Australia with police called every two minutes to a domestic violence event.

Mr Albanese called a roundtable summit following rallies across the country calling for better policies to protect women.

The result was what Pape described as a ‘reheated Scomo policy’.

‘[Former prime minister Scott] Morrison had the Escaping Violence Payment, which offered up to $5,000 for women and Albanese has the Leaving Violence Payment, which does the same thing,’ he said.

‘Now it’s better than nothing.

‘Yet it doesn’t come close to tackling the big issue: our housing market is a complete dumpster fire.’

Mr Albanese described his plan as ‘two steps forward’.

‘What we’ve done is to beef up the program to make sure that there’s more, more support, not just the financial payment, but that those support services kick in as well,’ he said.

To be eligible for the Leaving Violence Payment, a person must be a victim survivor and have experienced a change in living arrangement as a result of the intimate partner violence in the past 12 weeks.

It offers eligible victims up to $1,500 in cash and $3,500 in vouchers.

Pape linked the housing crisis to Australia’s domestic violence epidemic, saying: ‘There are way too many women living with violent jerks because they can’t afford to move’

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Pape claimed the skyrocketing price of housing in Australia has forced women and children to stay in violent households as they can’t afford to escape.

Anglicare last month found educated women in high salary jobs can only afford three per cent of rental properties.

‘And those cheap rentals have eager-beaver applicants lined up around the corner,’ Pape said.

The organisation said it was ‘giving out blankets to women to sleep in their cars’ while Homelessness Australia found just 3.7 per cent of women who fled violence were able to secure long-term housing.

Pape pointed the blame at the government’s ‘vote-grabber’ tax breaks which made it easier for investors to provide private rentals.

Instead, he believes the government should have focused on building more public housing.

‘There are way too many women living with violent jerks because they can’t afford to move,’ Pape said.

On Friday, NSW deputy premier Prue Car announced a housing package which would help women trying to leave dangerous situations.

Ms Car said it would be the first step in a larger push by her government to improve the safety of women after an alarming spike in violence against women.

At least 28 women have died this year from gendered violence.

Following a cabinet meeting on Friday, which heard from experts and campaigners, Ms Car said: ‘Primary prevention and early intervention does need more attention because we need to drive the cultural change that stops this from happening.’

Ms Car, the housing minister, said the government will look at under-used accommodation facilities with a view to repurposing them as shelters or even long-term housing.

She also said education would be focus.

‘Education is always, always part of the answer, but the government needs to make sure that schools are supported to be able to do that’.

Leader of the government in the Legislative Council Penny Sharpe said the announcement was decades overdue.

‘Today, what this government has done [has] started a process that has taken too long but that is about urgent action,’ she said.

‘It is about things that are going to change the dial … to prevent the behaviour in the first place.’

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