If there were less red tape and less inefficient social services homeless might be able to pull themselves out of poverty more.

In older times you could build your own house for 100 pounds- but now we can't build it for under $500,000. Sounds like our so called "modern society" has some efficiency problems. Every council has to employ a team to manage building, and we also have state bodies- you could understand some rules around building but this massive lead balloon isn't good for anyone.

But at least the councils are closer to the stakeholders than the state governments.

The real estate bodies in different states have interesting views on housing as well as immigration. If housing was cheap perhaps they wouldn't be pushing for "Big Australia".

Tiny houses are not for everyone.
Aidan,
Someone living on the streets or in a car or someone whose rent is going up by 100% would set you straight in a flash !