Does anyone have a plan to fix Australia’s housing affordability crisis?
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With house prices and rents continuing to soar across Australia, the major parties are talking up their respective homebuying policies on the campaign trail, but will these policies actually fix Australia’s housing affordability crisis? Laura Murphy-Oates speaks to economics reporter Peter Hannam and Prof Hal Pawson about the housing policies of Labor, the Coalition and the Greens, and what impact they would have on housing affordability
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