'Untapped potential' to boost housing supply with granny flats, report claims | ABC News

Hot off the back of last week’s national housing crisis summit, new analysis across Australia’s three biggest cities has found more than 650,000 residential properties with the potential to build a granny flat.

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Advocates say it could help ease pressure from historic low vacancy rates of less than 1 per cent, which have left people scrambling for affordable rentals.

The analysis, by town planning research analysts Archistar, lender Blackfort and property data group CoreLogic, concluded there was an “untapped potential to boost housing supply”.

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