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The national conversation about our housing crisis is too antagonistic.

Too often, it’s pitting younger Australians against Boomers, and that’s putting Boomers on the defensive which, in turn, is making genuine conversation, where people are willing to listen to each other, extremely difficult.

Is it contributing to policy paralysis?

I suspect it may be, because governments are more likely to want to fix a problem if they’re relentlessly pressured by a large amount of voters of all ages to do so.

So, we need to realise it’s in most peoples’ interest to fix our housing problems, as recent research makes clear.

The housing crisis is increasingly impacting home-owners

Experts have published numerous reports on this topic in recent years for the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI).

They say something extremely serious has occurred in Australia.

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