Much more to affordability than building homes

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By Leith van Onselen

Fairfax has published an interesting article today explaining why the Coalition’s plan to solve the housing affordability problem by simply building more homes is unlikely to succeed:

…economists, urban planners and community groups disagree, and this week wrote an open letter urging the government to go beyond supply as its sole strategy for moderating house prices…

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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.