Melbourne's planning disaster: jobs grow in CBD while housing booms on fringes

By Clay Lucas
Updated March 2 2015 - 1:13am, first published 12:15am
Jason, William (seven), Lucy (four) and Alice Osborne enjoy living and the bike tracks surrounding Point Cook. Photo: Joe Armao
Jason, William (seven), Lucy (four) and Alice Osborne enjoy living and the bike tracks surrounding Point Cook. Photo: Joe Armao

The CBDs of Australia's largest cities have become the engines of the nation's economy, attracting most of the jobs growth. But the nation's city-fringe suburbs are providing most of the housing – with disastrous results, new research shows.

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