"HOUSING TRACKER #3: The Farcical Arithmetic of Australia's Housing Crisis"
"A Carport and Two Signs: The Farcical Arithmetic of Australia's Housing Crisis"
Executive Summary
This is not a housing strategy. This is performance art. In a land where ambition once meant a backyard and a barbecue, today's national dream is a front fence and a carport on a block of dirt—provided, of course, someone else pays for the NBN trench and the sewer pipe.
Two men stand before the public. One holds a sign promising $27,000 per home. The other offers $10,000. Together, they have funded... a driveway. Maybe.
And still, we applaud. Because it sounds like progress.
1. The Infrastructure Hook-Up Illusion
Basic services—roads, power, sewerage, water, NBN—do not magically appear. The typical cost to connect a single lot to functional infrastructure lies between $50,000 and $70,000 per dwelling.
Let’s be clear: no connection, no construction. Yet our noble leaders pitch policies that don’t even cover the pipe to flush the first toilet.
2. The House That Arithmetic Forgot
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Authorised by Andrew Dyhin, CHATO International, Gold Coast
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