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> by removing barriers to development

That's quite broad. Barriers to development were lowered and ignored during the Celtic tiger era.

Really poor housing was built and funnily enough, it was still sold at obnoxiously high prices.

The only people pushing for this are property developers and thankfully so far, most of the country has remained strong on not falling for this spiel again.

*This doesn't exclude building higher in city center.

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Removing barriers to entry does not mean allowing low quality housing to be built. It instead means things like getting rid of building height limits.

Piggybacking on this, I believe it would mean things like decreasing "Environmental Review Process" and "Comment Periods" as well as density restrictions.

Or even doing that as part of an urban development planning review where most of the review and impact is assessed and pre-approved as long as the proposed changes mostly match what was envisioned. Make the actual review and approval more like asking for a variance.

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