Summit thrashes out fake solutions to housing crisis

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The pantomime that is Australian housing policy is rolled up to a new location over the weekend, with “the troubling state of Australia’s housing market and possible solutions… thrashed out at a summit attended by affordable housing advocates, academics, unions, think tanks and politicians”.

Max Chandler-Mather of the Greens, Zach Smith of the Construction, Forestry, Mining, Maritime and Energy Union, and Lilia Anderson of the Australia Institute were among those that spoke at the National Housing Justice Summit, held on Sunday in Sydney:

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You can bet your bottom dollar that the federal government’s extreme immigration policy was not discussed at the event:

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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.