A small Victorian tourist town of 2,600 people has 100 properties for sale. What’s going on in Bright?

With few homes for rent and a chef living in a van, the Alpine shire town is described as an ‘extreme version’ of Australia’s housing crisis

Everywhere you look in Bright there are trees – shaded crimson, amber and gold in the autumn; they attract thousands of tourists to the Victorian town.

But nestled in between the elms, oaks and maples are “for sale” signs hitched on fences and banged into front yards, revealing others are moving on.

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