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Nicole Gurran, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Sydney

Is regulation really to blame for the housing affordability crisis?

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The Albanese government has a new mantra to describe the housing crisis, which is showing no signs of abating: homes have simply become “too hard to build” in Australia.

The prime minister and senior ministers are taking aim at what they are calling a “thicket” of red tape and regulation, which is making it “uneconomic” to build affordable housing.

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