We don’t dislike the doctors and nurses who bring us health services. Or the farmers who bring us food. I could go on with other examples – you get the picture. But it seems that almost everyone dislikes the developers who bring us new housing. Why is this?
We have created a messed-up system for delivering new housing, and we are getting exactly the sort of behaviour that should be expected from such a system. We have aBut many Sydney councils don’t pre-emptively zone significant amounts of land with sufficient scope for additional housing, whether for the private market or social housing. Local Environment Plans often allow only for very limited amounts of new housing.
What might a better system – one that would facilitate the construction of more missing-middle housing, whether it be private-market or social and community housing – look like?