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This isn't about prices, it's about homelessness. When population is growing faster than housing times occupancy rate, then necessarily people are sleeping rou

• austin-cheney 2y ago
  Its not clear if people are moving in faster than new housing can be built or if supply availability is artificially limiting speed of growth. Prices do matter, because that impacts inventory access more than any other factor and largely explains the desirability of this location, versus other locations, more than any other factor.
  • scarab92 2y ago
    In the long run yes, but Australia's problem is that migration has suddenly increased from about 250k pa to 600k pa, and our building industry simply can't keep up. Prices are spiking, but there isn't much supply response because Australia has low unemployment and few people are willing to switch careers, especially given it takes years of training to become qualified.
    • lmpdev 2y ago
      It has naturally dropped off again though as it was mostly a backlog of migrants from years with lower caps than what we ought to have had It is stabilising now and will return to normal levels