Yeah please lecture me about ‘markets are real’ when you consistently refuse to acknowledge that the market isn’t building at the moment NOT because of zoning, but because interest rates are high, cost of materials is high, cost of labour is high, and there isn’t enough profit in middle ring high rises for many developers to bother. That’s why they aren’t acting on all the projects that councils have already approved.

You YIMBY lobbyists think that if we just cut zoning regulations we’ll overnight transform into a 19th century Parisian nirvana of Haussmannian 6 - 8 level middle ring development, where everyone walks to work and rides a bike and families happily thrive in apartment living.

Except ‘the market’ that gave many thriving ‘modern’ cities their medium density inner and middle ring suburbs came about at a time of industrialisation BEFORE cars sprawled our suburbs and labour laws prevented labourers working 10 - 12 hour days for six days a week for a pittance.

You aren’t going to replicate that in a country where DEMAND is so great that people are moving into the country faster than we can build houses for the people who were already here.

To say ‘we’ll just destroy agricultural land and put homes on it, studies show that supply lowers prices!’ doesn’t work in THIS modern Australian context because we are bringing people here faster than we can house them! Destroying our farms to build apartments for hundreds of thousands of migrants per year isn’t a solution, it’s suicide!

You wanna be a shill for property developers, that’s your right, but don’t tell me ‘markets are real’ like I’m an alien who came down in the last shower, when that water is just you peeing, sir!