Nobody believed that the federal government’s target to build 1.2 million homes over five years was realistic. The highest single year of construction in Australia’s history was 225,500 in 2017, 6% below the annual target of 240,000 homes a year. As shown above, new housing supply is tracking near decade lows, with only 177,000 new
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