MICHAEL Parris's article in regard to the housing shortage identifies the highly-regulated processes overlayed with bureaucracy ("Hunter commissioner stays as Minns abolishes agency; plans change", Newcastle Herald 28/6). Clearly this has been one of the leading causes of the housing shortage.
NSW Premier Chris Minns' focus on this area is to be applauded, but it will need a great deal of resilience to break down the inefficiencies in the process. In my view these are caused by too many staff and not enough autonomy in the process. Local councils have elected representatives to sort out the community needs, and if they don't they can be voted out, unlike the bureaucracies generally in state administrations.
