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by djrobstep 681 days ago
How much do you think supply needs to increase in Australia to bring homelessness to zero?
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No amount of supply would fix it because the government will always keep growing the population to keep demand higher than supply.

They are talking about taking Australia up to 40 million people.

... by 2071?[1][2]

Looking at the data, this doesn't seem an unreasonable YoY increase.

1. https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/population/populati...

2. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-23/how-many-people-will-...