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FET #5: Why we need a public housing developer
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FET #5: Why we need a public housing developer

What Singapore has that Australia does not is high and growing home ownership and… a public housing developer. Cameron argues instead of fiddling around with arcane schemes like we are now, we should just have the government build homes like they do in Singapore. Cameron’s proposal is called HouseMate. He also confronts myths about rent control in the barney of the week.

https://fresheconomicthinking.substack.com/p/how-to-get-land-into-the-housemate

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-06/could-australia-learn-from-singapore-to-make-housing-affordable/100801082

 

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