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Home ownership is slipping out of reach. It’s time to rethink our fear of ‘forever renting’

Written by Dorina Pojani, Associate Professor in Urban Planning, The University of Queensland

A wide range of voices in the Australian media have been sounding the alarm about the phenomenon of “forever-renting”.

This describes a situation in which individuals or families are unable to transition from renting to home ownership, due to rising property values and wages that can’t keep up.

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