1 million empty homes will never solve Australia’s housing shortage

More than 1 million homes were registered as vacant on census night, 2021. (Source: Getty) A lot has been made of the recent census results showing there were 1,043,776 unoccupied dwellings on census night 2021. That seems like a lot of houses – out of the total 10.852 million dwellings in Australia. It is assumed…