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The latest ideas to use super to buy homes are still bad ideas

  • Written by John Daley, Chief Executive Officer, Grattan Institute

Treasurer Scott Morrison wants to use the May budget to ease growing community anxiety about housing affordability. Lots of ideas are being thrown about: the test for the Treasurer is to sort the good from the bad. Reports that the government was again considering using superannuation to help first homebuyers won’t inspire confidence.

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