{"id":449812,"date":"2026-06-09T12:11:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T02:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=449812"},"modified":"2026-06-09T12:11:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T02:11:22","slug":"australias-housing-crisis-fuels-migration-cut-demands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=449812","title":{"rendered":"Australia&#8217;s Housing Crisis Fuels Migration Cut Demands"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Public frustration over soaring home prices and rents has boosted Pauline Hanson&#8217;s One Nation party, which promises to cap permanent migration at 130,000 annually. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Net overseas migration peaked at 429,000 in 2023-24 and remains high, with nearly 500,000 net arrivals in the year to February 2026, though forecasts predict declines. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Labor government highlights reforms like student visa caps and a claimed 40% drop in net migration, while critics cite data showing daily population growth over 1,000 people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Housing experts warn cuts could harm the economy since migrants fill key roles like 57% of GPs, but polls show 43% of voters want reductions amid cost-of-living pressures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Net overseas migration peaked at 429,000 in 2023-24 and remains high.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":449813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[273,999],"tags":[10839],"class_list":["post-449812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-australia-politics","tag-australian-labor-party"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=449812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":449814,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449812\/revisions\/449814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/449813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=449812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=449812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=449812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}