https://theconversation.com/how-negative-gearing-changes-can-bring-life-back-to… Created Tue, 08/03/2016 - 10:22 Updated Tue, 08/03/2016 - 10:22 Curbing negative gearing will help get empty housing onto the market. This could go some way to bringing life back to relatively dense urban centres that are oddly lacking intensity of public life.