Unfortunately, it looks like he’s going to elected in a couple years. I just hope people remember after a term of the Conservatives cutting important environmental policies like the carbon tax, that they will have failed to make like more affordable AND fucked up the environment more.
The conservative parties that won in the UK didn’t manage to make things more affordable, the conservative party that won in Australia didn’t manage it either, no party anywhere has managed it.
This crisis isn’t caused by local government zoning policies, approval red tape, or anything else that the parties are talking about. It’s caused by landowners (including people who own only one property) using a home as an investment.
You cannot have homes appreciate in value faster than inflation (investments) and also have affordable housing. It’s impossible. That’s literally just a pyramid scheme.
Until the government starts implementing policies that start reducing existing home prices, this will not be fixed. Building more units doesn’t do this unless you build impossibly (literally impossible) large numbers.
So stop voting with your emotions and vote with your brain.
Hrmm, common sense. Where have I heard that before?
Common sense is the worst kind of sense. It presents solutions with little to no need for actual knowledge or logical thinking. It will keep your hand off a burning stove, but may well burn a country to the ground.