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A close up of Gloria Biberger with her partner looking over her shoulder as they sit in a rowboat.

The lounge-room of Gloria Biberger''s Berlin apartment, with two large windows that stretch to the high ceiling.

"They say that even living out of the city, they can't afford to have such a flexible lifestyle."
upward view of streets signs on the corner of Berlin street with an apartment block in the background.

A Korean woman puts her arm around a man as they look across a railing at the Seoul skyline

"There are examples throughout the world, and even historic examples in Australia, where we have regulated rents before."

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Ken Yip with his wife holding their two cats, wearing birthday hats.

Ken Yip and his wife sit on small stools drinking beer and smiling at the camera in their new empty apartment.

"The Commonwealth has kept the state social housing systems on a starvation ration for a couple of decades,"
Mr Martin said.

A street view looking up at a tall public housing block in Singapore.

"State and territory governments have primary responsibility for social housing and homelessness,"
he added.

"This is currently at odds with the intensely financialised thinking about housing as an investment asset,"
she said.
A small group of people hold signs in the street protesting against the rising cost of housing.

"This is something that Australia needs to begin to wake up to,"
Professor Stone said.
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