1: require publishers to to get a permit to publish any Cam Murray work
2: deny all permits
3: no Cam Murray published content
Therefore, the market does not want Cam Murray content, bc if the market wanted more Cam Murray content, it would have already met that demand
Oh look, it's an industry which uses lots of land in very specific places run by profit chasing market dominant suppliers, and somehow they've built themselves an enormous oversupply that's crushing prices
That's weird, bc I was led to believe that couldn't happen
@north0fnorth
>hey, that thing looks like a weird shape, it must be something interesting
>it's a jumbo sized car park next to a beach in one of the most expensive cities on the planet
cool, cool
I get the nuclear argument about costs. What's weird about it is that people who never give a toss about costs suddenly care about costs if it involves nuclear
This is terrible. The proposal was to replace this on the left with that on the right, a clear improvement that would additionally create more homes and reduce housing pressure.
@dcnhvct
Developers would love to build buildings that people want to live in but the planners are too busy breaking up the massing, requiring several floors of parking, and adding setbacks and turning them into shit
This is the British Hotel in north Adelaide. It’s a small quiet pub which serves ppl who live in walking distance.
A century ago we built these pubs everywhere, then planners made them illegal pretty much everywhere in suburbs built later. We should re legalise them everywhere
ABC staff slowly figuring out why a sixteen year old kid with a website and a smarmy gossip columnist at a business rag can do more balanced and in-depth investigative journalism than Australia’s largest media empire with a $1b annual budget
ABC presenter Leigh Sales said the public is “losing interest” in the stories the media is telling, blaming some journalists for being activists and driving their own agendas,
@australian
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The NDIS currently costs around about the same as one 5,600MW nuclear reactor per annum
Which of these two options do you feel offers better bang for buck
We spend all our time writing laws which provide incentives and accountability, and then the govt just comes along and bails people out at precisely the moment they’re supposed to get a lesson in incentives and accountability
Worldly Wednesday 🌏
Any 2-story rowhouse in Tokyo, the owner can operate a restaurant, boutique, or small workshop on the ground floor.
That gives the city an incredible supply of potential unique microspaces that are affordable for entrepreneurs.
Ottawa should legalize this.
You’re all having a good laugh, and you got a point, but the real red pill is that slot control is the biggest rort you’ve never heard of and it killed bonza like it killed every other one
And that’s why your return flight Mel-Syd costs a grand
Picture this: you are designing a mall for an inland regional Australian city, which has a record high of 46.9C (116.4F) and an average high of 32.3C (90.1) in Jan, it only rains 72 days a year, and you decide to make it look like this
@francisxwolf
Yeah, can you believe that the son of a Polish Jewish immigrant whose family was killed in the holocaust could have views about people who go on Jewish pogroms and brag about it
Crazy
Anyone who tells you that getting rid of zoning and planning restrictions doesn’t make a difference is about as credible as an anti vaxxer or a flat earther
This is a well meaning but extremely harmful concept: thinking of cities as places to be perfected by the right ppl, rather than places where we all coexist by choosing to live and do what we want to do
Just stop telling ppl what to do, please
In Au/NZ Adelaide is consistently underrated - while at the other end of the spectrum Melbourne's marketing department got way ahead of the product years ago
I'm dying for a law which says that no NIMBY, councillor, or urban planner may live in a house which could not be passed by the planning rules if it was built today
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@RepealTCPA1947
I’m trying hard to think of any application of stem that wouldn’t be treated with the same mock horror: finance, AI, economics, management consulting, automation
Its just all bad vibes through and through
It still blows my mind how Australian cities imported this “we must protect sunshine at all costs” attitude when it’s 40 degrees C in the shade in Adelaide in the summer, and it’s only getting hotter
How much of urban planning policy is just dictated by the inability of a small number of people to say “yes, I hear what you’re saying, and no, I’m not going to do a thing about it”
Insane statistic:
78% of noise complaints lodged against Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport were made by a single household.
Reminder that NIMBYs are a very loud minority of people.
“We built cities all over America that are designed for automobiles and not designed for people... Our housing costs are high, in part because of the way that we've designed our cities."
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@GovDougBurgum
North Dakota comments during the
@NatlGovsAssoc
winter meetings
@GeoffHanmer
Houses built 70 yrs ago for profit by a developer: cherished heritage
Houses built today for profit by a developer: awful generic dog boxes that must be stopped at all costs
Councils who try to decide which specific businesses are allowed and which are not should be hauled before a court for explicitly anti competitive conduct and fined heavily for trying this kind of stunt
I am once again asking for the tax brackets to be adjusted for inflation, instead of doing this silly pantomime where the govt takes more of my money through inflation and pretend to give me a bit back in tax cuts
Australia's top marginal tax rate - which comes in $180k - hasn't changed since mid-2008.
$180k back then would roughly translate into around $270k today (adjusted by WPI).
And yet it is politically controversial to raise the top rate to $200k
#auspol
Bear in mind that when Suzanne moves on to another house, she will be handsomely compensated by the developer who buys her house, and that’s a good thing
Just out of interest, how many planning, health, safety, and liquor licensing rules and regulations would this situation violate in Australia or New Zealand
@GeoffHanmer
If you think set backs, height limits, and overshadowing rules are so great, why not post some photo of an obviously perfect building which complies with those requirements
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you a housing shortage in an island continent filled with natural resources and one of the lowest population densities on the planet
@AlexArborist
It’s so obvious when you go somewhere which has actually been untouched for a long long time. NZ has only had humans for maybe 500 yrs, and the South Island was too cold for ppl most of the time until the last century. You want alps, go there
I've totally zoned out of every conversation about exactly how many homes we need to build
If you just rip up the zoning plans and let people build what they want, then it doesn't even matter how many homes you think we need
I think a more accurate metaphor would be YIMBYs suggesting that the solution to poverty is allowing people to have jobs if they want them, instead of just banning new jobs
Note for Australian urban planners - three storey walk ups with narrow streets and tall trees is extremely suitable for our climate
Just put some Italian piazzas and football pitches every few hundred metres or so
The traditional urban form in most warm climates puts tallish buildings along narrow streets that rarely get direct sun.
Inside, arcaded courtyards have abundant shade from both buildings and plants.
These photos are from Morocco but you see the same across the Mediterranean.
@HousingSpock
I want someone to make a movie which really rams home just how much of our problems today were caused by hippies. I don’t quite know how to do that yet, but it would be cathartic
@UrbanJerseyGuy
@TomoLovesNature
So what, you have to turn up at some weirdo public discussion meeting to explain that a bus shelter must function as a literal bus shelter
Otherwise the city is free to make any piece of expensive garbage and it’s your fault for not turning up
Why do we call them NIMBYs when they’re really saying is “me and my five weird neighbours should be able to tell you what you do with your backyard whether you like it or not”
Why do the Austin Urbanistas call themselves YIMBY (Yes In MY Back Yard) when what they really stand for is Yes In YOUR Back Yard (YIYBY)? The former is an expression of their own property rights, the latter is an expression of disrespect of everyone else’s property rights.
@eigenrobot
This is how I feel about every sequel to Alien, I mean guys, you should probably have at least some basic biohazard protocols if you can fly through space, and even if you didn’t that would go up the priority list after you meet the face hugging killer alien
@yhdistyminen
There’s a lot to be said for shaming behaviour that we’re not afraid to use, like yelling, angry notes, or egging. Presumably he’s not going to call the cops on her for any of that either
“Just building more homes on its own is not going to tackle the housing crisis”
Green co-leader Carla Denyer says the housing crisis needs to be addressed by making homes that are built more affordable and “bringing empty homes... into use”
#BBCLauraK
It’s amazing that the existence of this place was an embarrassment so bad that it had to be demolished, but mass homelessness and prices so high 30yr o lawyers are living with their parents is no big deal
It’s amazing to have such a diverse group singing from the same YIMBY sheet.
It’s time for
@ChrisMinnsMP
and
@paulscullymp
to deliver on their “up not out” rhetoric by embracing these reforms. Sydney can’t afford to wait.
They literally tell you what will slow price growth - right there, in black and white, and it's not declaring that housing is a human right, or taxing Airbnb, or affordability requirements, it's all zoning reforms and a flood of supply
YIMBYs should join up to any and every political party they can find in Australia and just irritate every MP they can find for more and more YIMBY policies
The path from angry tweets to policy is so much shorter than you think, and no, I am not joking
Why is Cuba filled with old cars and why are Anglo cities filled with crappy old houses?
Bc both passed a whole lot of laws making progress illegal, that’s why
@stan_okl
It literally looks like these neighborhoods were just frozen mid-motion. That they had been growing and changing for decades as the population did, and then all of a sudden one day the buildings just stopped changing.
I often wonder how much inflation can be cut by aggressively building more houses. We had goods price deflation in the early 00s thanks to massive growth in Chinese exports
@JeromeFahrer
we should hand out an award for the most transparently self serving lobbying effort each year, with an award ceremony and everything
just need a catchy name for the award
I’m not pro terrorism, I’m just at a rally with people who are sympathetic to terrorists, chanting slogans which are popular with terrorists, deflecting away and denying the terrorists worst crimes, while loudly demanding the terrorists strategic objectives
The great housing paradox: Everyone agrees that housing affordability is one of Australia’s biggest economic problems, if not the biggest, but promising genuinely to fix it will ensure that you don’t get elected.
@TheNewDailyAu
Generation Z is taking over. And in financial terms, these young people are doing extraordinarily well. Zoomers are much better off than millennials were at the same age, as well as the other preceding generations. What does this wealth mean?