We often hear all kinds of words, for example: new York is full, Paris is full. The city is no longer capable of carrying more people and so on.
And now the mood has begun to spread among the people in Sydney, and people living in Sydney are constantly wondering, is Sydney really enough people?
For more than a year in 2017, the New South Wales government has been approving and allowing new housing construction, corresponding to the ever-built skyscrapers, the ever-increasing population and density. This is a question that needs to be considered in the run-up to the 2019 election.
The government wants to keep the city function up to the pace of population growth. Sydney's population is expected to grow by one hundred thousand a year over the next 20 years.
Faced with a growing cynical electorate and weary of crowded voters, the government has made housing affordability one of its top priorities.
Politicians may see the situation as marginal rigidity, and they are beginning to oppose Sydney's overgrowth, which has begun to emerge in Sydney's communities.
John Daley (John Daley), chief executive of the Gratham Institute's (Grattan Institute), said: this kind of planning politics has begun to turn into a vicious circle, which is an incorrect political approach.
Now everyone thinks Sydney, especially in the suburbs, will be more densely populated. And in the future, your children will not be able to afford a house, they will have to live 30 kilometers away from you.
It is difficult for the Australian government to justify itself. Some members of the Liberal Party have begun to publicly question the Australian government's policies, such as the need for some parts of Sydney to be re-zoned.
The Labour Party has also made clear that it is necessary to use the planning strategy as a battlefield for elections, and has made a general offensive against the priority development areas of the Government, turning priority development areas into areas of higher density, especially those around the railway stations. Speed up the re-partitioning process.
The Labor Party has also made it clear that if the election wins in 2019, it will immediately abolish the existing priority zone plan.
There are also giveaway plans, such as allowing only six-storey apartments to be built and 25-story buildings allowed to be re-built.
And so far, the government has not made a commitment to new schools and other supporting facilities.
And according to the latest poll, more than 2/3 of New South Wales residents think Sydney is full! There is no need for more people to come to Sydney.
The Sydney long-term Planning Committee estimates that an additional seven hundred and twenty five thousand homes will need to be added over the next 20 years as the city's population rises to 6 million.
In the latest plan announced last week, the committee asked the Sydney parliament to try to provide two hundred thousand new homes by 2021.
In response to this demand, Planning Secretary Anthony Roberts (Anthony Roberts) quickly countered, accusing Labour of "denouncing Sydney for a decade of excessive house prices, slow growth, overcrowded infrastructure and declining quality of life."
But some scholars are sceptical about the region's planning, as they see the idea of strengthening the inner west side as nothing new.
People run to the city center because there are more jobs in the city center. Moving people to other areas or building new homes may seem to solve the problem of population density, but if employers are not in those areas, the displaced people will continue to flock to the center of the city.
So if there were no employers, it would mean that the government's ability to change regional density was limited, and that was the committee's biggest concern.
Sydney's new airport, for example, is expected to provide more than 60,000 direct jobs, but it will not be completed until 2026.
So some experts say the government's current district-change plan is simply a policy to please voters.
In order to calm local anger at Sydney, the policy was introduced for the vote.
In fact, it is only by raising the overall function and development level of the city to another level that Sydney will be able to resolve this argument.
Rather than simply moving areas to reduce population density.