Grattan Institute gaslights on immigration and rental crisis

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Earlier this week, I was interviewed alongside other economists by Shannon Molloy from News.com.au on how record net overseas migration is impacting the rental crisis.

As usual, I gave a straight-talking, no BS assessment of the situation:

Leith van Onselen, co-founder of MacroBusiness and chief economist at MB Fund and MB Super, said the decision to “funnel in record amounts of people … is arguably the biggest driver of the housing crisis”.

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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.