Australia’s governments want to ‘solve’ the housing crisis by pushing Australians into high-rise apartments. However, high-rise apartment approvals have collapsed, as illustrated in the following chart: Since peaking between 2015 and 2017, high-rise approvals have fallen by the following amounts across the major markets: NSW: down 74% from the September 2016 peak. VIC: down 68%
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