Architects don't like houses

If the Royal Australian Institute of Architects has it way we will all be living in apartments and town houses:

AUSTRALIA'S big cities are being urged to ban outer suburban housing estates to cut urban sprawl and be more like London and Rome.

The nation's peak architectural body wants Australian cities to focus on boosting their inner and middle suburbs' density rather than release land in outer areas, to become more sustainable.

Sorry, this has been the curse of the Sydney housing market for years. The limitations on land availability has forced land prices up destroying the Australian dream of home ownership. The architect's hated of suburban sprawl is not shared by ordinary Australian's who love their MacMansions. The government should do the reverse, to open as much land as it properly can to maintain proper supply. As to the concerns over transportation, the answer is to foster commercial development in reginal CBDs like Parramatta and Liverpool so outer suburb residents don't have so far to travel.

I hazard to guess that many of these architects are inner city types who would benefit from the higher housing prices their policies would cause.