Urban Taskforce Australia welcomes the current review as an important investigation into the current housing crisis and its impacts on various segments of society.
There is undoubtedly intergenerational inequity in relation to housing, both for purchasers and renters. This inequality is a direct consequence of decades of systematic under-supply.
This failure of government at all levels in all jurisdictions around the nation is too often exacerbated by the voices of existing residents drowning out those of new, would-be neighbours. The worst manifestation of this self-indulgent NIMBYism has been writ-large through the Eastern Suburbs, Inner West and North Shore of Sydney, often encouraged by politicians and willingly embraced by public service planners.
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