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Budget 2017: a housing policy shambles

11 May 2017

2:50 PM

11 May 2017

2:50 PM

The housing measures in the 2017 Budget present a great case study in how expectations can be mismanaged.

The government unwisely created anticipation that it would ‘solve’ housing affordability, then allowed expectations to grow. But they couldn’t be met — which someone in the government eventually figured out. After a while.

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