Better “design” won’t solve housing affordability
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Tim Ross has penned a post in The Guardian arguing that better housing design could expand home ownership to “a new generation of Australians”:
Today in the land of the million-dollar median, it’s easy to dream about a golden age when you could chuck a Chokito wrapper in the bin, buy yourself a three-bedroom brick veneer house, plan a caravan trip up the coast and then sit down and watch Sale of the Century…
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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.
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