The Sunshine Coast faces a battle to keep young families and maintain diversity as surging home prices threaten to “gentrify” the region, a national expert warns. Gentrification happens when wealthier people move into a lower-income area, pushing up house prices and often displacing original residents. Interviewed experts, including UQ|UP’s Dorina Pojani, warn the Sunshine Coast could be heading the way of Byron Bay and Noosa where locals have been locked out of the housing market as the rich – and famous – move in.
Read the full story on the Sunshine Coast News: www.sunshinecoastnews.com.au/2021/02/10/gentrification-sunshine-coast/