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Low Income Housing Tax Credit Programme Impacts on Housing Affordability in Australia: Microsimulation Model Estimates

Gavin Wood School of Social Sciences and Planning, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
,
Richard Watson Treasury, State Government of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
&
Paul Flatau Murdoch Business School, Murdoch University, Australia
Pages 361-380 | Published online: 08 Dec 2010

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