The so-called housing crisis has been touted as one of the great challenges facing major urban centres in the 21st century. Yet, when the city decides to work with stakeholders instead of against them, housing is built in record time.
While building for the homeless is a worthy endeavour and a strong signal that as a society, we can take care of our own, it also shows that the aforementioned crisis poses zero technological challenge and that the roadblocks facing people trying to build more housing are only regulatory and cultural in nature.
The people who made this happen should be lauded, but it should also make us angry at local governments for showing that they're the bottleneck and yet do little, if anything about it when it comes to facilitating the construction of much-needed "regular" housing stock. That should be cause for all of us to demand more pudding.
This was discussed extensively on a previous podcast with Andrew Waugh.