Australia’s current housing crisis affects people differently at different stages of life and no age group or generation is immune to these challenges. While the data on wealth distribution across age groups, stagnant wages, rising housing costs demonstrate that housing situation for renting and home ownership is much worse now compared to what it was a few decades ago, this narrative of ‘boomers vs millennials’ risks misdirecting both public debate and policy responses on housing. The Australian housing market has been materially distorted by the concentration of property investors and policies that favour them coupled with decades of declining government investment in public and community housing.

Read our submission to the Inquiry into Intergenerational Housing Inequity