Both major parties have put forward a series of housing initiatives to combat the current crisis. But what policy levers should they actually be pulling?

Brendan Coates, Housing and Economic Security Director at the Grattan institute told Radio National Breakfast "it's reassuring" both sides recognise the lack of supply is the biggest contributor to the crisis - and says both sides are trying to overcome an "intractable problem" which is that the States control most levers, but the Federal Government holds the purse strings. 

• Guest: Brendan Coates
• Producer: Madeleine Hanger