Social housing at last

Social housing is the topic ‘de jour’, with many columns devoted to it recently. The comments received contained two questions that need to be answered: How big is the problem? And are there any successful examples?

WORDS TONE WHEELER
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QUESTION ONE: HOW BIG IS THE PROBLEM OF SOCIAL HOUSING? Australia currently has about 10 million households (if you include the homeless who would like to be counted as a household). Only 4 percent of those households, or 400,000 dwellings, are public...

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