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Housing: the hidden health intervention

  • Written by Rebecca Bentley, Associate Professor, Centre for Health Equity, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne
imageAround 1.3 million households receive government rent assistance.Nils Versemann/Shutterstock

Australia’s long run of “home ownership for all” appears to have ended. Smashed avocado aside, young people are now much less likely than their parents to ever own their own home. Almost one-third of the nation rents, mainly from private...

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