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Urbanisation and tax have driven the housing crisis. It’s hard to see a way back but COVID provides an important lesson

  • Written by Yogi Vidyattama, Associate Professor, Faculty of Business, Government and Law, University of Canberra

This article is the first in The Conversation’s series examining the housing crisis. Read the other articles in the series here.


The paradox of Australian housing is the abundance of land – 7.5 million square kilometres of it – and the shortage of accommodation.

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