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By political reporter Tom Crowley
Untangling the housing crisis thumbnail

The skyline of Auckland

"But the risk is that it becomes the new climate change, where politicians decide it's more important to focus on their differences rather than finding common ground."

Albanese housing construction

Queenslander

Two construction workers work on steel beams with the blue sky behind them

"The frameworks and processes that dictate what gets built, and where, are hugely biased against change."

a man looking serious in his office

Jacinta Allan housing plan

Albanese Rose Jackson housing

Max Chandler-Mather Michael Sukkar press club

Brendan Coates in an office working

A former hostel sits empty, boarded up and gradually crumbling.

The steel frame of a house in mid-construction, in front of a light orange sunset.

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