Want to slash social housing waitlists? We should allow tenants to swap homes
- Written by Andrea Sharam, Senior Lecturer, School of Property, Construction and Project Management, RMIT University
ShutterstockThere are 184,100 people on social housing waiting lists around the country, reflecting the impact of declining homeownership and escalating private rents.
However, building new social housing takes a lot of time and money. The Australian government’s $2 billion social housing plan, for example, will deliver only around 4,000 new...
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