Are international students impacting the housing crisis?

Australia’s housing crisis has exploded since the Covid pandemic hit in 2019, with rental and  housing prices seeing a major five-year surge.

But, as international students return across the nation, questions have been raised around how this factor affects the market, and if current housing builds are enough to keep up.

Some say net migration is to blame, while others believe the country have no capacity of building more homes.

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Produced By: Ned Thomas

Featured In Story: Dr Piyush Tiwari – Professor in Property Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne , and

First aired on The Wire, Thursday 14 November 2024