Angus Taylor, the Assistant Minister to the Prime Minister with responsibility for cities, is the latest Coalition MP to badly miss on the issue of housing affordability. Below are key extracts from an article that Taylor posted in The Weekend Australian:
For a decade, Sydney and Australian housing supply has dragged behind demand. Labor state governments presided over a grinding halt in Sydney housing development in the mid to late 2000s, and we’ve never caught up. The backlog is still underestimated or, worse, ignored. The real numbers look something like this:
