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Houses outstrip wages and could WFH lead to more urban sprawl?

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Houses outstrip wages and could WFH lead to more urban sprawl?

For three decades many Australians have bought houses for capital gain and rental returns. In the decade up to 2019, Sydney houses earned the equivalent of the average wage. Will high prices continue after the pandemic? New research on how working from home might reshape housing demand. And RBA research has found that most household debt is held by those who can afford it
Guests: Cameron Murray, Research Fellow, Henry Halloran Trust, University of Sydney
James Lennox, Senior Research Fellow, Centre of Policy Studies, Victoria University

Nassim Khadem, ABC business reporter

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