You can’t love mass immigration and hate costly housing, Jess Irvine

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By Leith van Onselen

For years, MB has ridiculed fake lefty, Jessica Irvine, for staunchly lobbying for ‘open borders’ mass immigration (e.g. here, here and here), while at the same time decrying the poor state of housing affordability, especially in her home city of Sydney.

Yesterday, Irvine penned an article entitled “How to fix Australia’s broken property market”, which canvassed a range of solutions to ‘fix’ Australia’s housing affordability problem, but conveniently left out the most obvious: cutting immigration:

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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.