This is a lib strategy to let the market sort out housing problems, framing it as an issue of zoning. If only these anti-density zoning laws were changed, we could have cheap and high-quality housing for all, they think.
While SFH zoning helps to protect property values and restrict density, there’s a lot more to the issue than mere zoning. The elephant in the room is the financialization of homeownership, which both depends on and creates a system in which housing prices increase faster than incomes.
Yes, of course. I was joking about a recent post where an article called the NZ PM “Lenin with hair”.
Now, I’m not saying this is a definite solution, nor that I expect a sucdem government to actually deliver the real solution, but it’s a nice step forward, sadly they will never reach the goal cuz they are sucdems.
