KEY POINTS
- Big Picture Navigator
- Domestic Economic and Business Environment
- 2017 Sector Outlook
WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE
- Housing affordability is a large and structural problem
- Causes of affordability problems are complex and diverse
- Addressing affordability problems require a broad variety of strategies to:
- improve the efficiency of housing markets
- cut the cost of infrastructure to go with housing
- release more land and relaxing regulations
- plan where to put more houses
- increase supplies of affordable housing
- respond to housing-related financial pressures on individual households
- promote innovative housing finance options
