Another bogus housing affordability inquiry ticked off

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Australia’s governments have run numerous housing affordability inquiries over decades, including but not limited to:

  • Menzies Research Centre: Prime Ministerial Taskforce on Home Ownership 2003;
  • The Productivity Commission’s First Home Ownership Report in 2004;
  • A Good House is Hard to Find Report from the Senate Select Committee on Housing Affordability in Australia in 2008;
  • Western Australia’s Affordable Housing Strategy 2010-2020;
  • NHSC: State of Supply Reports (2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 onwards);
  • COAG Review of Capital City Strategic Planning Systems Report 2011 and report on Housing Supply and Affordability Reform 2012;
  • Senate Inquiry into Affordable Housing, 2014-2015; and
  • Parliamentary Inquiry into Home Ownership 2015.

On top of these we have received many reports from think tanks like the Grattan Institute, the McKell Institute, AHURI, and others.

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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.