Saturday, September 30, 2017

Mounting housing stress underscores need for expert council to guide wayward policy making

Stronger, better-founded evidence about the nature and extent of the affordable housing problem may help build consensus about how to tackle it effectively. But the Abbott Government disbanded the National Housing Supply Council. Now the Opposition is talking about reinstating it. Hal Pawson (UNSW) and Oliver Frankel (UTS) why this may help.