ESSAY

OUR HOUSING CRISES IN CONTEXT
THE CENTRAL ISSUE UNDERLYING AN ENDURING SOLUTION

Adequate housing supply is a currently prevailing hot topic, about which there is no shortage of opinions as to addressing the conspicuous need to improve on the current levels of shortfall, be they affordable home ownership, social housing, or all forms of leased accommodation. So far, there is no magic bullet to be found amongst the variety of partial responses being proffered, such as reforming the slow approval processes, improving building- trade’s capacities and reducing financial impacts of government imposed costs. Increased productivity at all levels of response throws a blanketed failure over all players. How to address what appears be a rental market free-for- all (a misnomer if ever there was one) only underlines failure in achieving attendant social solutions.

By:

Terry Byrnes
Vice-Chairman AIUS NSW