And this is why house prices are high in every urban centre. We see this same unexpected alliance everywhere between the environmental left that wants to preser

And this is why house prices are high in every urban centre. We see this same unexpected alliance everywhere between the environmental left that wants to preserve as much greenery as possibly via zoning rules, and the crony right who just wants to cynically increase property prices. The end result is a lot of human suffering and nothing to show for it. Property investors really aren't the root problem because they lease the property back onto the market and that supply doesn't vanish. This is not dogma. Quite the opposite. The impact of supply caps due to zoning has been studied to death by economists. The "preserve greenery" perspective is just a highly privileged one and a false choice/false dilemma to boot. You can build vertically without sacrificing greenery or destroying your parks and bushland. Why not just do that and solve the entire problem? Oh wait that is illegal...