Australia has an extraordinary 13 million spare bedrooms. Here’s how to use at least some of them to ease the housing crisis
- Written by Lyndall Bryant, Lecturer in Property Economics, Queensland University of Technology
While there’s little relief in sight for Australia’s housing crisis, with new projects years away from completion, there appear to be as many as 13 million unused spare bedrooms across the country.
In a new briefing paper for the QUT Centre for Justice I suggest that, at least in the interim, these spare rooms ought to be part of the...