Housing affordability will require a deep cultural shift

Abstract

The real, deeper question is whether developer-led housing can ever deliver “affordability” without more fundamental legislative change.

Suddenly, housing is hot. Everyone is an expert and every second day brings new headlines on housing policy, delivery, quality, ownership, location, form and cost. But the recent housing focus has been squarely on quantity, not quality – and even in quantity terms, the proposals have been questionable. Unless we rethink the fundamentals of housing provision, experts warn, nothing will change: the rich will continue to get richer and the poor, the young, the female and the unlucky will be increasingly disadvantaged.

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