Planning

When housing grows by displacing the infrastructure that feeds construction, the bottleneck does not disappear. It moves.

This is not mainly a density story. It is a systems story: planning becomes scalable when it stops behaving like bespoke judgement.

More approvals and more projects do not automatically mean more housing completions. When labour and execution capacity remain constrained, the system can still stall downstream of planning.

Housing affordability is not only a construction problem. It is also a land format problem. Small lots in more places, and mid-rise in the right places, may matter as much as faster or cheaper building.

This is primarily a record signal, but an important one. Major urban density remains most politically legible where strategic land, transport access, and state-led choreography come together.

At 90m², a so-called granny flat starts to function less like dependent accommodation and more like a potential form of distributed infill housing. The deeper question is occupancy logic, not just built form.

Capital does not back housing in the abstract. It backs the housing formats that can survive the delivery environment.