I mean I get you, the developers themselves don’t really care about solving the crisis, they just want to make money. But increased housing supply is the only real politically viable solution, and unless we want even more sprawling, car dependent cities, then that requires higher density. So in this case, people who want affordable housing and developers that want to make a profit, have a shared goal.

Now if you were to argue that the government should instead build a massive amount of publicly owned high density apartments, terrace houses, duplexes, etc rather than handing it over to the private sector, than I’m all for it. But I really don’t see that happening any time soon, and that’s partly because a minority of people will protest to their local council that it’s ruining their community (and their property values).