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Labor's proposed $10 billion social housing fund isn't big as it seems, but it could work

Written by John Quiggin, Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland

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The centrepiece of Labor’s election program so far is its A$10 billion social housing policy, officially called the Housing Australia Future Fund.

In the first five years the fund would be used to build

20,000 social housing properties for people on low incomes - 4,000 of the 20,000 for women and children fleeing violence and for...

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