Beat the Crisis

I sometimes feel I am turning into a broken record when it comes to the looming housing shortage we are facing in this State. It is a big issue and it is likely to be the fundamental that once again smashes affordability of housing in WA. So we need to keep talking about it.

There are many factors at play in this shortage, one issue surrounds what our first home buyers or young people are building. We need more homes to be built, that is a fact. But what we don’t need is oversized houses built in new subdivisions which are getting further and further away from the CBD. There is a mindset in WA that when you build a home, you need to build something as big as possible, with a theatre room, alfresco area and multiple bedrooms, but this mindset is actually just leaving us with... read the complete article at realmark.com.au