Government should respond to, rather than drive, changes in the population, employment, and housing affordability.

7 months ago

Government should not seek to influence population, employment, and housing affordability. It should simply focus on best practice:

  • environmental regulation, even if this means environmentally-unfriendly businesses and employment disappear,
  • infrastructuring charging, even if this means that the prices facing households rise,
  • housing policy, which should recognise that artificially boosting supply would give rise to artificial population growth, and
  • business regulation, which would happen to boost employment and a shift towards a more youthful population.

Oyster farming would happen to thrive under this approach, as oyster farming is: environmentally-beneficial; hurt by pollution; hurt by inadequate infrastructure investment (particularly re sewage infrastructure); and hurt by anti-business regulation, including bias towards seaside residents vis-a-vis seaside businesses.

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