Hell yeah man, let’s make people’s lives harder so number go up.

We are calling on the government to build 30,000 social homes every year for the next two decades until we end the shortfall, and ensure everyone who needs a home can get one.

Lol. With the neolibs/conservatives firmly in charge of politics — letting capitalism dictate housing, probably leading to fascism — this is gonna get so much worse. It’s only gotten worse for over 4 decades. Even if they build an extra 100k a year of social housing I doubt they’d hit the shortfall we’ll have in 2 decades.

This isn’t a “perverse incentive” – the government explicitly and directly encourages this behavior.

It seems odd to blame the housing orgs here for doing what the government asks them to.