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Councils and NIMBYs make the housing squeeze harder

Australia’s housing availability will get worse for buyers and renters, as hundreds of thousands of immigrants arrive and a home-building downturn deepens.

John KehoeEconomics editor

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Australia’s housing availability problem is going to get worse for buyers and renters, as hundreds of thousands of immigrants arrive each year and a home building downturn deepens.

It doesn’t have to be this way.

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John Kehoe is economics editor at Parliament House, Canberra. He writes on economics, politics and business. John was Washington correspondent covering Donald Trump’s first election. He joined the Financial Review in 2008 from Treasury. Connect with John on Twitter. Email John at jkehoe@afr.com

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