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Housing affordability is a problem. Here's why super-for-housing isn’t a solution

  • Written by Brendan Coates, Program Director, Household Finances, Grattan Institute

The idea that young Australians should be able to dip into their super to help buy their first home keeps going round and round. The most recent iteration put forward by the Coalition’s Tim Wilson and a clutch of other backbenchers has the catchy slogan Home First, Super Second.

Wilson and co. are right in their diagnosis: Australia has a...

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