Priced out: uncovering the hidden forces making Australia's housing unaffordable

Priced out: uncovering the hidden forces making Australia's housing unaffordable

There’s plenty of speculation about what has caused Australia’s housing crisis and what can be done to fix it, but Governments of all persuasions just aren’t prepared to do the thing that would make a big difference. One of the greatest scandals in Australian real estate is that taxes and charges from the three levels of government comprise between 40% and 50% of the cost of creating new homes. At a time when Australia is experiencing its greate…