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The Senate has passed the Help to Buy housing scheme. It will help, but not much

By Hal Pawson, Professor of Housing Research and Policy, and Associate Director, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney

Having finally stared down Greens resistance in the final sitting week of the year, the Albanese government looks set to tick off the last of its 2022 housing commitments in need of parliamentary approval.

Like most of Labor’s other housing measures, the Help to Buy and Build to Rent tax reform…

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