Too many NIMBY's for any govt. to take on a building plan, whatever the colour of the rosette, add in the tree huggers and eco zealots and one is on a road to nowhere.

Then if and when a housing project takes place, it creates problems that said govt. (pigs with snouts in the trough) do not address. No thought is given to the added pressure on schools and the local health service and ground level GP surgeries and dental services. But hey look at us we are the best govt. ever building all these houses.

The houses that get built are often unaffordable for local indigenous people, often snapped up by corporates to inflate the rental market, add in the OCG's who also invest in house buying as a way of "cleaning their money". Also people should question why a place the size of my town ( I refuse to call it a city, it isn't its a fucking town) has a ridiculous number of "turkish" barber shops. It ain't about the hair cuts.