The government wants more of us living in high rises. Here’s why Australians don’t want to

By Emma Baker, Professor of Housing Research, University of Adelaide
Amy Clair, Deputy Director, Australian Centre for Housing Research, University of Adelaide, and Research Associate, ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change, University of Essex
Chris Leishman, Professor of Property and Housing Economics, University of South Australia

Governments have been pushing the construction of apartment towers for years to help housing affordability and availability, but people don’t want to live in them.

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