The government’s housing targets in 2024 and 2025 are already under “significant threat” as funding for private market housing has been “substantially curtailed”, a new Department of Finance report has warned
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The Project Emerald report has said there was a “systemic funding vulnerability” in the private housing market because it was “heavily reliant on transient international private equity”.
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