GeriLabor's housing affordability dilemma: damned if they do, damned if they don't

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Guardian Australia04.06.2026Siyaset1 dk okumaAustralia

Labor's housing affordability dilemma: damned if they do, damned if they don't

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Labor faces a "diabolical political conundrum" regarding the housing affordability crisis.
Any attempt to solve it risks either lowering house prices or failing to address the core issue, leaving the government in a no-win situation.

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Josephine Tovey speaks with Gabrielle Jackson, Patrick Keneally and Jonathan Barrett about why Labor is damned if they do, and damned if they don’t, when it comes to the diabolical political conundrum of trying to solve the housing affordability crisis without bringing down house prices

Yes Australia’s house prices may fall – but the decades of unchecked property price growth were the true policy failure – Jonathan Barrett

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