""But we shouldn't just count on reducing the cost of construction and assume that that will flow through to house prices unless we're sufficiently meeting the housing demand."
Mr Bowes said the biggest regulatory barriers to building new homes was at the state and local levels, where there were strong restrictions on denser housing in cities."
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