It should be illegal for Politicians to own more than one property, then we would I’m sure, see sensible changes: Maybe positive changes inclusive for the renters in the rent slave society the same Politicians oversaw and promoted too, a by-product of total self interest and profiteering from above.

Surely, there are obvious vested interests amounting to insider trading, to be called out and highlighted, when Politicians manipulate their personal investments by voting for the madness of open border immigration levels, which will deliberately escalate the pain for communities in the midst of a long and historical list of housing crises in history, this one getting worse not better!

Squeezing people into high rise apartments as if they are battery hens has nothing to do with housing affordability; it has everything to do with control by a political class luxuriating on their acreages and hobby farms.

There is a 'build to rent' push by Albanese's Marxists, who don't like the idea of the hoi polloi using property to gain wealth. Nor do they like the idea of private individuals being landlords: witnessed by new rumblings about abolishing negative gearing. Public housing is a great way to control people.

I believe very rapid rail has to be part of the solution along with deionisation dialysis desalination, that guarantees affordable potable water on demand that requires no further treatment. Both of which would open up hundreds of acres of new urban land.

The building costs of high rise is directly related to the cost of energy including the energy component in the steel making and all the other building materials and their transport! To that end we need to transition to MSR thorium, nuclear energy or MSR nuclear waste burners ASAP! to bring energy price down to less than 3 cents PKWH or even less!

{And that my friends, is how you do an energy superpower!}

It says much that we can access fully imported materials and white goods transport halfway around the world for less that we pay for local manufacture.
Alan B.

Too many people...
As always.

So this scheme of building flats is the regime's Stage 1 in disempowering people, making them poor and docile to prevent their revolt. When necessary that would make it easier to control the exits and cordon their homes, just like that successful experiment in Melbourne, July 2020.

Stage 2 will involve locking up everyone in jail. On the one hand fewer square meters will be required per person, but then can someone do a quick calculation of the cost of having to use thicker floors, ceilings and walls to prevent escape, and then also add the overhead of fencing and guard towers: would it still be cheaper?

For Stage 3 they are looking at ways to convert people into ashes without emitting carbon dioxide: ashes are most economical because they do not require housing, in fact they can even be used as foundations for road and rail.