2017 Business Sector Outlook

KEY POINTS

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• 2017 Sector Outlook

WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE

• Housing affordability is a large and structural problem
• Causes of affordability problems are complex and diverse
• Addressing affordability problems require a broad variety of strategies to:

1. improve the efficiency of housing markets
2. cut the cost of infrastructure to go with housing
3. release more land and relaxing regulations
4. plan where to put more houses
5. increase supplies of affordable housing
6. respond to housing-related financial pressures on individual households
7. promote innovative housing finance options