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YOU WONT BELIEVE: Heated wa market impacting social housing - What They Never Told You

John Carey Western Australia

Efforts to address homelessness in WA are being hampered by an overheated construction market. (Richard Wainwright/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

Efforts to address homelessness in Western Australia are being hampered by a construction market so heated that even the government is struggling to find contractors.

Housing Minister John Carey has told a forum organised by Shelter WA "massive cost escalations" are forcing a rethink of how best to deliver social housing.

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