Peddling The Housing Supply Myth: Again…

May 26, 2024 00:14:25
Peddling The Housing Supply Myth: Again…
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Peddling The Housing Supply Myth: Again…

May 26 2024 | 00:14:25

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Show Notes

Housing is in crisis in Australia, its too expensive and relative to population there is not enough of it. As I discuss with independent Journalist Tarric Brooker last week, though shockingly, we have built more homes per 100,000 people than Canada, The US and the UK. In other words, we have a greater proportion of our economy dedicated already to housing construction, with perhaps 1.35 million people working in the sector. And we also know completion times are blowing out now, thanks to poor supply chains, lack of available labour, and poor-quality construction. In NSW half of high-rise projects have […]

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