What If Australia's Housing Crisis Isn't About Housing?
About this episode
The episode challenges the assumptions behind Australia's housing crisis and explores the need for better urban planning.
Australia's housing crisis is usually framed as a simple supply problem: build more homes, increase density, and affordability will improve. But what if we've been asking the wrong question all along? In this episode, Ross Elliott joins Veronica and Chris to challenge some of the biggest assumptions underpinning Australian housing policy. From the belief that everyone works in a CBD to the idea that high-density housing is automatically cheaper, Ross argues that many of the planning principles guiding our cities are decades out of date. Instead of focusing solely on housing supply, he believes we should be asking whether we're creating places where people can actually live, work, and thrive. Together, they explore why Australia's population growth continues to concentrate in a handful of capital cities, why regional centres have been overlooked, and how decades of planning decisions have contributed to today's affordability challenges. They also unpack the unintended consequences of density-led housing strategies, infrastructure bottlenecks, planning delays, and whether recent government policies will actually increase housing supply or simply drive costs even higher. This…
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