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Want to cut your new home costs by 10% or more? That's what building groups can do

  • Written by Andrea Sharam, Senior Lecturer, School of Property, Construction and Project Management, RMIT University
Want to cut your new home costs by 10% or more? That's what building groups can doA building group based in Eltham, Victoria.Image: Property Collectives

High-performance, affordable housing built in existing suburbs should be a big part of the solution to Australia’s housing crisis. Yet state governments and cities have struggled to achieve their goals of delivering affordable, multi-unit, infill housing.

For most people,...

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