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West Aussies are Australia’s most pessimistic on housing crisis despite promises in State, Federal Budgets

WA is the least optimistic stat in the nation on the housing crisis being fixed, despite it being at the heart of Rita Saffioti and Jim Chalmers' Budgets.

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