Does public housing hurt property values?
Analysis of thousands of Australian suburbs, provided exclusively to API Magazine, suggests the relationship between public housing and capital growth is more nuanced than the usual yes-or-no debate.
When it comes to public housing, many property investors and home buyers are quick to jump to conclusions. (Image source: TK Kurikawa/Shutterstock.com)
For property investors, few questions generate as much instinctive advice as whether to buy near public housing.
The conventional view is straightforward: avoid areas with too much public housing because it will limit capital growth.
The data is considerably less straightforward.
New analysis by HTAG Analytics of 4,135 Australian suburbs suggests there may be a threshold at which the concentration of public housing becomes more relevant to long-t…
