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More Supply Needed To Aid Affordability

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Government schemes which allow more buyers to get into the market when there is not adequate supply will just lead to price increases, according to national developer Mirvac.

Chief executive Susan Lloyd-Hurwitz warns against schemes which boost demand only.

“We’re in a genuine national crisis on affordability,” she says. “It will have an effect on the
next generation unless we solve it quickly.
“Solving it through demand side measures only fuels the fire. Demand policies aren’t bad in and of themselves, but they are poor if they are not matched by supply side measures.”

Lloyd-Hurwitz says not enough homes are being built to cope with population growth even
though migration virtually came to a standstill in the past two years.

She says apartment supply along the east coast of Australia next year is still going to be about
45% down on what it was in 2018.

The result is, she says, that young first-time buyers will find that prices continue to increase.

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