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Australian governments are treading lightly around Airbnb

  • Written by Nicole Gurran, Professor - Urban and Regional Planning, University of Sydney
imageDespite a huge apartment boom in inner Sydney, Airbnb may make house affordability worse.Shutterstock

Australia, and particularly Sydney, are gripped by a housing affordability crisis. So the NSW government’s omission of any concrete commitment to monitor the conversion of permanent rental housing to holiday accommodation, like Airbnb and Stay...

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