The NSW Liberals last year overwhelmingly backed a bold plan for housing, including around every train station in Sydney. Now they have changed their minds.
Senior NSW Liberals have warned the party must be unambiguously anti-NIMBY and not stand in the way of development as their state parliamentary colleagues push to tear up the Minns government’s signature housing policy designed to increase density around transport.
The motion at the convention called on the state parliamentary party to take major steps towards solving the worsening housing crisis, including “rezoning all lots within a 5-minute walking radius of existing train and metro stations in greater Sydney according to R4 high density”. “If we are pro-NIMBY, it is impossible to deliver intergenerational fairness. We need to be pro-supply, pro-development and anti-NIMBY.”
Liberal Senator Maria Kovacic, who was also a vocal supporter of the motion at the convention, said she appreciated concerns about the TOD program being a “cookie cutter model”. “In time of housing and rental supply crisis, all MPs and parties should be working constructively. Instead, the Coalition has chosen rank hypocrisy and partisan politicking over the interests of a generation who’ve been shut out of homeownership,” Buckingham said.
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