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The compelling case for a future fund for social housing

  • Written by Brendan Coates, Program Director, Economic Policy, Grattan Institute
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As more and more Australians are forced into private renting, including Australians who once would have owned homes or lived in social housing, more are living in poverty, suffering financial stress and becoming homeless.

Social housing – where rents are typically capped at 25% of tenants’ incomes – used to make a big...

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