Vested interests can’t be allowed to dictate Queensland’s response to the housing crisis

Developers are being touted as saviours to the state's housing woes but greenfield development won't affect affordability

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About six years ago, the Brisbane city council sought to forcibly remove a growing number of homeless people staying underneath the Go Between and Kurilpa bridges in South Brisbane.

A few years later, the Queensland government placed a series of large boulders under the Kurilpa Bridge to prevent rough sleepers from returning.

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