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Greens housing spokesman Max Chandler-Mather and NSW Labor Housing and Homelessness Minister Rose Jackson have both denied high immigration is fuelling the housing crisis.
This has not happened overnight. Kohler maps out 70 years of housing public policy in Australia, starting with changes to the Commonwealth and State Housing Agreement in 1954, when the program was redirected to support home ownership by forcing the states to sell much of what was being built.
The hero shot is the bane of good architecture. Form follows photos. It's a manifestation of container over contained: the exterior, not the internal. It should be space, light, use, quality. Those are the things that make architecture. I rail against the hero shot’s ubiquity, and architects’ obsession with it.
The ABC's finance expert Alan Kohler has blamed former Liberal prime minister John Howard for houses being so unaffordable in 2023, arguing the rot started two decades ago.
Alan Kohler’s Quarterly Essay lays out how the policies of successive governments have not only failed to address housing problems, but actively created them.