Affordability will be decided by what happens to the price of the homes that already exist, not by how many new ones get built.

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• Most affordable homes are not demolished, they are repriced: units move between price tiers without anything physical changing, and that dwarfs new construction. DHDaniel Herriges4 Jan 2023similar wording
• Housing affordability is almost the direct inverse of how many new homes are built, so the answer is to build more houses. DHDaniel Herriges4 Jan 2023similar wording
• Affordability is not a property of a building; it is a price set in a transaction, so there is no such thing as affordable housing, only affordable prices. DHDaniel Herriges4 Jan 2023similar wording
• It is only in dense cities that land dominates the price of a home, and there the land is expensive because of the rules limiting what can be built on it. BPBrian Potter2 Apr 2024similar wording
• Cutting development costs does not cut housing prices, because prices are set by what buyers will pay and the saving is capitalised into land value. JHJonathan Hopkins30 Jun 2026similar wording

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