The NSW Premier has been politically cautious so far but on housing density, he’s going to have to be bold, and he knows it.
NSW Labor leader Chris Minns told the Liberal-heavy Sydney Institute annual dinner on Tuesday that he knows all too well that his time as premier is limited. Minns acknowledged to the crowd – which included most of his cabinet – that he will eventually be relegated to just another premier-past, immortalised in a portrait hanging alongside his predecessors in the halls of NSW Parliament.It was an honest admission: the clock starts ticking for a leader as soon as they assume the top job.
Minns did not mince his words at the Sydney Institute. “Housing affordability and availability is the largest single challenge facing both the people of NSW and its government,” he said, repeating the worrying figures that show just how behind Sydney has fallen when it comes to building homes. Regardless, Minns was right to send the message that Sydney must become comfortable with apartment-style living, as are other major cities around the world. Minns was not proposing that towers should be the only answer to the housing crisis, although some Labor hardheads were uncomfortable with his early rhetoric. He now talks more broadly about density.
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