Housing affordability is on everyone’s mind but what’s being done?
In this episode, we welcome back Michelle Adair, CEO of The Housing Trust. The Housing Trust, which is the second-largest housing provider in the Illawarra, delivering subsidised rental homes to over 2000 people, with almost 1100 properties from Thirroul to Nowra. Michelle is at the forefront of the housing affordability crisis. Her professional and personal experiences will move you as she illustrates how deep this problem runs, and who has the ability to rectify it.
Here’s what we cover:
What’s wrong with the current housing policy?
Is focusing on first home buyers an effective strategy?
What is the role developers play in this crisis?
What is the economic case for providing more social housing
Is welfare enabling further social problems or remedying them?
How to balance a growing and a stabilising market?
EPISODE TRANSCRIPT: Please note that this has been transcribed by half-human-half-robot, so brace yourself for typos and the odd bit of weirdness…This episode was recorded in August 2021
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