The economic and financial issues of the week analysed by the UNSW-Canberra professor of finance, Massimiliano Tani.
The HomeBuilder program will award $25,000 in the coming months to those who plan to renovate or extend their home. The Master Builders Association has said that in the past four weeks its activities have returned to pre-Covid levels and that these measures are "the most effective stimulus in decades".
- The federal government has allocated $668 million to encourage construction activity
- Australia still lacks a policy for the construction of new public housing
- The distances between European Union countries on the use of the Recovery Fund remain unchanged
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