Australia’s housing crisis is not a collection of separate failures. It is what happens when finance, construction, wages, planning, and social policy move at different speeds while remaining inseparably connected.
Australia’s housing crisis is not a collection of separate failures. It is what happens when finance, construction, wages, planning, and social policy move at different speeds while remaining inseparably connected.
The problem is that we built a housing system increasingly organised around speculation and then act surprised when some of its casualties become impossible to ignore.