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    Housing shortage? What do the numbers say?

    Consider taking the figures from ABS3236...... Projected number of households in 2011 is 8,755,000 (Table 6.2) Average Household size in 2011 is 2.5 ppl per household (page 22) Multiply the 2 together to see how many people are housed in all the households - Answer is 21,887,000 people...
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    Housing shortage? What do the numbers say?

    The ABS statistic of 2.6 that you're using is what was the case last year. Lizzie & others (inc me) are saying that this year a high proportion of 1 occupant dwellings will be built - they will not house 2.6 people each. This has been the trend for several years, and consequently densities...
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    Housing shortage? What do the numbers say?

    Add caravan parks with permanent residents, and grey nomads to your list to find out about too :). I think the result your spreadsheet is trying to produce is affected mostly by the constantly changing persons per household. As others have pointed out household densities have been...
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    Housing shortage? What do the numbers say?

    Aah.... maybe you could state your assumptions/calcs in the main text.... it's really hard (for some of us) to read small italics text on a grey background in an image. I'd question your assumption of 2.6 occupants per approval. What proportion of new dwellings have been higher density studios...
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    Housing shortage? What do the numbers say?

    Have a read of Housing and the Economy from the RBA. It makes a couple of relevant points, that your spreadsheet doesn't allow for.
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