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Solutions beyond supply to the housing affordability problem

  • Written by John Daley, Chief Executive Officer, Grattan Institute
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Treasurer Scott Morrison has outlined his vision for increasing home ownership at a speech to the Urban Development Institute of Australia. The Treasurer acknowledged it’s hard for first home buyers to get into the Australian housing market and suggested a number of barriers to increasing housing supply. We asked an expert panel to analyse...

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