Dr Liam Davies: The Australian Rental Crisis

Lecturer at RMIT’s Center for Urban Research and an expert in social housing policy and urban planning, Dr Liam Davies, talks to RTRFM’s Jeff Bullen  about social and affordable housing in Australia and how the short-term measures will not be enough to address the current rental crisis

Dr Davies discusses the increasing strain from rising rent in recent years, vacancy rates dropping below 1% nationwide, and how housing affordability has become a national concern.

Dr Davies speaks about the critical shortage of social housing and the federal budget in response to this affordability crisis.

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