‘Gentle density’: Queensland premier highlights proposed solution to housing crisis

Summit of officials, industry leaders, experts and advocates points to more townhouses and micro-lot homes

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The eponymous home of the Queenslander is one of space, light and air - sprawling timber houses with wide verandas surrounded by lawn and gardens.

The good people of the sunshine state, however, have been told they will need to embrace more dense forms of living if they want the state to navigate a path out of its housing crisis.

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