For the love of god, can we please just fix the housing, ah, issue. I am no longer allowed to call it a crisis. Nope. It's not a crisis.

Who said? A bloke I speak to every time the housing c-word comes up. Poor old Michael Fotheringham. I've been interviewing him for at least 10 years in his gig as managing director of the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute. He is the full bottle.

And why isn't it a crisis? He says it's not an earthquake, a flood, a drought. It's not time-limited.

"This is much broader, it's a generational problem. We have spent 40 years creating the housing problem we have and now we need to spend decades fixing it for all households and work towards fixing that."

Our current conversation is sparked by the federal government's rebranded 5 per cent deposi

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