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By Leith van Onselen

The Age’s Clay Lucas has written a good article today summarising an upcoming report from the Tenants Union showing the strong shift towards renting by Victorian families since the early-1980s:

…families now rent 42 per cent of the state’s privately leased homes.

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About the author
Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.