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Labor's proposed $10 billion social housing fund isn't big as it seems, but it could work

  • Written by John Quiggin, Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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The centrepiece of Labor’s election program so far is its A$10 billion social housing policy, officially called the Housing Australia Future Fund.

In the first five years the fund would be used to build

  • 20,000 social housing properties for people on low incomes - 4,000 of the 20,000 for women and children fleeing violence and for...

Read more: Labor's proposed $10 billion social housing fund isn't big as it seems, but it could work

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