{"id":450830,"date":"2026-06-10T16:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T06:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=450830"},"modified":"2026-06-10T16:51:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T06:51:14","slug":"calls-to-sack-housing-minister-clare-oneil-as-labors-1-2-million-homes-target-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=450830","title":{"rendered":"Calls to sack Housing Minister Clare O\u2019Neil as Labor&#8217;s 1.2 million homes target dead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Housing Minister Clare O&#8217;Neil is under pressure after a new report found Labor\u2019s 1.2 million homes target by 2029 would not be achieved without &#8220;significant&#8221; reform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ahuri.edu.au\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/2026-06\/AHURI-Final-Report-461-Overcoming-construction-constraints-for-the-supply-of-new-detached-and-high-rise-housing.pdf\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new report<\/a>, the Albanese government&#8217;s aspirational target will be &#8220;very challenging&#8221; if productivity remains stagnant and market volatility remains high.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) found the sector\u2019s fragmented structure was holding back productivity and dramatically stunting long-term capability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Market volatility was also a major sticking point, with the report finding high migration and demographic change as instrumental drivers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prime Minister is facing pressure to sack Housing Minister Clare O&#8217;Neil after a fresh report revealed Labor&#8217;s 1.2 million homes target was almost impossible to achieve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":446057,"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":[273,35],"tags":[20389],"class_list":["post-450830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-breaking-news","tag-claire-oneill"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450830","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=450830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":450831,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450830\/revisions\/450831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/446057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=450830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=450830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=450830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}