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It treats a complex system failure as a simple numbers problem, and it absolves Australian governments of 30 years of policy failure on housing supply.
The NSW Government's Low and Mid-Rise Housing Policy is the most significant residential planning reform in the state in over 30 years. It falls short.
The $6 billion blowout on Sydney's three metro rail projects is not a one-off failure. The City and Southwest line has blown out from $12 billion.
The Minns government's proposal to rezone 168 hectares of the eastern suburbs for up to 9,400 new homes, with building heights of up to 34 storeys.
Western Sydney International Airport opened for freight services in July 2026, the culmination of a $28 billion investment by the NSW and federal governments.
The timing is not coincidental, and it exposes the gap between the political rhetoric of housing supply and the structural reality of delivering it.
There is a pattern in NSW politics that has become impossible to ignore. A crisis is declared, a deadline is set, and a suite of reforms is rushed.
In return, it secures fixed annual entitlements closer to the city, guaranteed for twenty years regardless of conditions in the source dams.
