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The Rise of Rents in Australia
Rental housing is just a market. You've got people who want shelter and people who have houses. So that is one big reason for rising rents. But there are a couple of reasons. The construction workforce isn't big enough to support all the dwellings that need to be built. And we can't forget that when we cut off migration because of COVID, we also cut off people who take a lot of those construction jobs. This sounds bad, Claire. Do you want to run a slew of the supply side issues? Yeah.
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