The housing unaffordability myth, page-235

LOL.. let's point out the obvious..... "over population" supply & demand exists only because everyone wants to live on the same 1/4 acre and they all want a view, government has recognized the problem for the last 50 years and over and over again has come up with grand plans that will enable everyone to have their 1/4 acre close to work and always without fail it begins with moving government departments, the stumbling block of course as always is the public servants themselves who won't move with the department... government not being very clever keeps walking into the same door never once understanding they need to turn the doorknob to get to the other side of the door... the other clever idea is to provide big business with incentives to move away from the capitol cities and into the regional areas, well some have and have done very well but they have a stumbling block too... Ports, yes the good old port, you see you need to transport your goods to a port to ship it overseas and the cost of that transport is expensive, farmers unlike big business have always known about this cost and for a great deal of our history had cheap rail that allowed the farmers to make a penny or two, now of course road transport is cheaper than rail, sometimes not always so there is the issue "cost of transportation", two problems identified now that need to be resolved so that all our children and our new immigrant friends don't want to live on the same 1/4 acre, naturally real estate vendors scream out that government needs to release more land for the developers they have no problem with the urban spread, you see they don't have to provide the infrastructure and services that go with it, the clever developers want to build massive towers in the CBD so everyone can live on the same 1/4 acre, once again they don't have to provide the required infrastructure and services, you know it doesn't take long to see that it's not just government that has failed us, we have failed ourselves... and that brings me back to those public servants, what would it be like if they actually did move or alternatively what would it be like if we had a government with balls that said if you don't want to move that's just fine, you can finish up at the end of the week and NO their is no redundancy package and can someone please place an add in the paper for ten thousand public servants to begin work immediately in Bourke..