Australia’s YIMBY movement argues that if policymakers simply upzoned suburbs, thereby permitting high-density apartment developments everywhere, then the nation’s housing affordability crisis would magically resolve.
Yet a study of the actual evidence shows that Australia has had one of the highest rates of housing construction in the developed world:
![Housing construction rates](https://api.macrobusiness.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Figure-1-1.png)
Source: OECD Affordable Housing Database