Australia has a housing crisis. But some of the wealthiest councils in the country are doing almost nothing about it.
Since 2001, Mosman on Sydney's lower North Shore has built just 749 new homes, a six percent increase.
In the same period, Parramatta — in Sydney’s west — built over 51,000.
In the 2025-26 financial year, Hunters Hill — also in the North — approved 28 new homes.
While in the west, Blacktown approved over 2,200.
The affluent LGA of Stonnington, in Melbourne, voted unanimously to oppose reforms allowing 16 storey tall buildings
And in Perth, some councils have been pushing back at the idea of any kind of high density housing.
This is what it looks like when the councils that could build choose not to, and what happens when state governments try to make them.
The National Account’s Archie Milligan has the rundown: