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Re:The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong by yen223 on Thursday July 31, 2025 @10:06PM (#44752333)
In the last election, Australia's Green Party was the only party whose housing plan involves actually building homes.

The major parties went with throwing more money at the problem.

Re:The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong by energy123 on Thursday July 31, 2025 @10:12PM (#44752374)
Talk vs action. The Australian Greens opposed Australia's build-to-rent legislation. They didn't oppose the entire legislation. They opposed the one part of the legislation that would have helped the problem.
Re:The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong by athrun on Friday August 01, 2025 @12:18AM (#44752974)
Aside from the fact that the few policies they made explicit in their platform would actually be counter-productive to getting more supply (such as National-level rent freezes), they also don't have a good track record at the local level when it comes to housing.

I've been very involved in council-level politics where repeatedly the Greens members were aligning themselves with the right-wing members ("ratepayers rights"-type groups) when it came to delaying/blocking development permits, enforcing parking requirements, preventing/delaying rezoning, etc. They fundamentally don't understand the issue at all. All talk, no substance.

And that's before we get to the CFMEU matter, which I think was the final blow for them during the last election.