11,000 Homes Gone And The Housing Crisis Deepens

Australia has no shortage of housing plans. The real shortage is homes being delivered. In this episode, Hotspotting examines the collapse of Sydney's $9 billion Moore Point development, which proposed 11,000 homes and 23,000 jobs but was abandoned after more than a decade of planning. The project's failure exposes a critical question: how can Australia solve its housing shortage when major developments capable of delivering thousands of dwellings cannot navigate the planning system? We explore the impact of planning delays, development costs, bureaucracy and government decision-making on housing supply, affordability and rents — and why ambitious housing targets mean little if the projects needed to achieve them never get built. This is a deeper look at the structural barriers shaping Australia's property market and what needs to change to deliver more homes, faster.