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CHIA MR: Firing on all cylinders; the economic case to Quadruple the HAFF

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Quadrupling the number of homes built under the Housing Australia Future Fund would deliver powerful economic returns while aggressively tackling Australia’s worst social problem, the rental housing crisis, according to new modelling.

New analysis from the Swinburne University of Technology shows expanding the number of homes built under the HAFF from 30,000 to 120,000 could create $12.79 billion worth of social and economic benefit over 25 years, including avoided public costs such as policing and health care.

The report, commissioned by Australia’s peak social and affordable housing bodies, the Community Housing Industry Association and PowerHousing Australia, also…

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