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The office-to-residential conversion argument is correct about the problem and wrong about the scale of the answer. Sydney's commercial tower stock is genuinely underused.
Sydney's housing crisis is no longer a problem for the distant future or for a marginalised few. It has become a defining feature of the city's economic.
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.
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.