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Housing policy goes back to the future

Opinion: Previous attempts to build cheap houses in the outer suburbs have failed because of high transport costs. 

Dr Andrew Cardow & Dr William Wilson
Fri, 03 Nov 2017

We are in a housing crisis but then we’ve always been in a housing crisis. The new coalition government’s promise to build 100,000 homes for first-home buyers in the next 10 years is just the latest in a long history of government intervention (and, to be fair, the outgoing National-led government

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Dr Andrew Cardow & Dr William Wilson
Fri, 03 Nov 2017
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