Yes, and that won't change until we have something like a land value tax that is based on active use of the land. There needs to be a mechanism in place to stop wealthy investors buying up property they barely use. At the moment luxury property in a large city is seen as a safe investment (for the most part).

Yeah, it's incredible to me that legislators can just throw their hands up and pretend there is absolutely nothing they could possibly do.

It's sad, but with the level of corruption in many governments, the only way to get change that serves the people is to educate the people so that they can see through their misinformation. Once the population is highly informed about the issues, they can't pull their usual tricks without a high risk of losing their job.

I realise that the general population should have an active role to play in all democracies, but sometimes you'd wish they'd just do the right thing without needing to be micromanaged through it.