
How Australia’s Shed House Is Rewriting Affordable Housing
Photos -Shed House, Australia

Photos -Shed House, Australia

Over the past few years, I’ve watched something subtle—but important—happen in our industry. We didn’t fix the housing problem. We started renaming it. Not intentionally.

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Yesterday at IBS, someone asked me a question that stuck with me long after the crowds thinned out and the speakers packed up their slides.

Every few years, someone asks a version of the same question:“What would it take to finally make affordable and attainable housing work in this country?”

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Across the country, the shortage of teachers is not only a question of recruitment and pay—it’s increasingly a housing issue. Educators are being squeezed out