2025, SMH: What housing crisis? For most, there isn’t one – but look how the other third live

a line of piles of coins increasing in size from left to right. A hand is holding a small house above the tallest pile.

By Kate Shaw

This may come as a surprise given the media narrative, but Australia is not in a generalised housing crisis. Two-thirds of the nation’s householders own or are buying their homes – they are by definition not in housing crisis. The 20 per cent who own investment properties are doing just fine.

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December 31, 2025