How can we make housing more equitable?

The housing system isn't broken, it's working exactly as designed… just not for renters.

Government policy has consistently prioritised housing as an investment asset, spending more to support landlords than tenants. The result is a wealth gap that tracks almost perfectly along generational lines.

Laurence Troy and Sophia Maalsen study what this means for cities and communities: a growing generation of forever renters, and digital platforms now extracting data from tenants just to access a home. So how did we get here and what could a fairer system actually look like?