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More Australian social housing is the obvious answer to more than one question

Publisher/s

The Guardian

Author/s

Greg Jericho

Abstract

Building public housing in the GFC turned out to be good economic and social policy. Amid the Covid recession, what are we waiting for?

The latest building activity data highlights that the construction sector was falling well before the coronavirus hit and that the government is failing to respond as occurred during the GFC, when massive stimulus both sustained employment and also provided much needed social housing.

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