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Zac de Silva

Not migrants: research pinpoints housing crisis culprit

The main driver of high property prices is housing supply, not immigration, a report says. (Joel Carrett/AAP PHOTOS)

Restricting Australia's migrant intake is not a silver bullet that will fix the nation's housing crisis, an influential think tank has warned, challenging an argument often put forward by coalition MPs.

Australia's shortage of homes is not an inevitable consequence of immigration, but instead the result of not enough dwellings being built, a report released by the pro-free-market Centre for Independent Studies has found.

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