Australians push back on proposal to tax ‘unused bedrooms’ to solve housing crisis — could it work in the US?

Getty Images Moneywise and Yahoo Finance LLC may earn commission or revenue through links in the content below. Like the U.S., Australia too has been grappling with a housing crisis. And experts Down Under have floated a controversial fix: taxing unused bedrooms in people’s homes. The idea stems from new research by real estate analytics firm Cotality, which found a mismatch between the number of people in a home and the number of bedrooms it has. According to Cotality’s head of Australian research, Eli ...