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Alan TUDGE behind me on my plane. He forgot his mask and had to be asked by the flight attendant to put it on. Classic lib
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@GoodPoliticGuy
Australia's media landscape views on race issues are right wing by default. I don't want anyone thinking that our media is even remotely treats racial inequality seriously
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The response to
@SydneyYIMBY
's call for public housing to be built of vacant defence land in Haberfield is truly unhinged.
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It's really baffling to me that this is considered a "bad" heritage outcome that makes a mockery of this heritage building.
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This is FUNDAMENTAL as to why Victoria is shifting away from public housing.
Homes Victoria pays for GST; non-profits do not.
Homes Victoria can't receive Commonwealth Rental Assistance; non-profits can.
The Cth. punishes states for providing public over community housing!
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@johnweber94
@TimSmithMP
There's clear exceptions regarding work that's for the public's safety. Tim is spreading misinformation:
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@maximum_sincere
Is reminds me of the time I met a couple from Brunswick that moved to Ferntree Gully because they wanted to experience the country
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This sort of stuff should be illegal. Denying someone housing for their past social media activity is ghoulish behaviour.
I’m seeing this more and more, real estate agencies are sending reference requests asking about whether the prospective tenant has used social media to tell their story. This question should not be allowed in a reference check. This one’s from Altitude Property Management.
It’s
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"No one wants to live in an apartment" is outdated logic. People just want somewhere to call home.
We need to allow for more medium density developments or soon people won't even be able to afford buying an apartment!
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@KhaosKeswick
to rephrase what you're saying: you ultimately do NOT want transgender folk be distinguished from cis folk right? Your end goal for society is that the cis/trans distinction is not needed; thus labelling trans ppl queer regardless of sexuality is a barrier to this correct?
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@thegoldenidle
The assumption here is a bit wrong. The background is live action. What's more likely is that they had reshoots and just chroma keyed in the background from the same scene so there was consistency
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Fighting a hospital being built is utterly insane. I don't mean to be rude, but these people need a reality check.
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Well wortha read to learn how local councils are holding back affordability.
We may not agree with everything
@peter_tulip
advocates for, but he is way more sensible & could be the greatest opponent to LL's interests
vs
Anyone bothered finishing
@MattLCape
@percapita
paper?
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@doumamai
@VCHQ2022
@benitakolovos
For reference Catherine Cumming is number 10 on the Liberals submitted ticket for the West Metro region. Only the DLP and UAP is preferenced before her. Absolutely damning choice of person to rank so highly on their ticket
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@georgiecrozier
There's clear exceptions for works regarding public safety. This is poor form and misleading. Please delete
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This article is really disappointing. The framing reeks of sinophobia and the article is filled with borderline misinformation. Let's break it down:
The Allan government is set to rezone huge swathes of Melbourne to increase density around Suburban Rail Loop stations >
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@stopthirstingo1
@sighjuliet1999
@4nouk_
@kamenism
He just did a movie called The Report which is absolutely scathing towards to the idea of "getting revenge for 9/11" it's very clear he holds strong anti-war sentiments now
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Ignoring the blatant xenophobia here, Melbourne does not resemble a European city at all.
We are missing the mixed used medium density that allows European cities to be human centric. We can make our city better whilst making our community larger!
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@sophieelsworth
@SenatorWong
@AlboMP
@theheraldsun
When you said that "Frydenberg is the same Treasurer who helped drive this country out of debt – much of it racked up by Labor" did you mean deficit? Because last time I checked the Coalition has been increased debt by $300billion pre-pandemic.
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For the planning nerds: this is the map of areas now under the SRL Authority's control as a planning authority!
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What's "bizarre" is denying that third-party appeals and objections have an effect on the development approval process. This is not a disputed fact.
The bizarre part of the YIMBY movement is the idea that somehow property developers are being out-smarted by NIMBY grandmas who can play the political system to their advantage.
Are we forgetting that the property industry is hugely over-represented at all levels of politics?
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Maybe a planning system that empowers rapidly aging and wealthier inner-city homeowners over everyone else leads to bad outcomes? How could have seen this happening?
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When people say "heritage overlays restrict development" this is what we mean:
This property has a tennis court taking up 50% of its land and is located 700m from a train station.
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Darebin NIMBYs are going to die on the hill of townhouses being overdevelopment 💀
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It's very frustrating for Max to make good valid arguments about our failure in building public and social housing but is insistent on trying to paint any solution other as evil!
Our housing crisis will not be solved with public housing alone! Housing abundance is key!
In other cases, property developers will drip feed private rentals onto the market in a way that ensures rents only ever go up. But it gets even worse…
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A lot of people are dunking on Chip’s editorial line here, which I understand, but I think this points to a core systematic issue when it comes to reporting on upzoning and housing density:
Those that negatively affected are loud and easy-to-see. Those who benefit are not.
People thought they were getting a train station, not losing their neighbourhood.
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@AnnastaciaMP
This is bad optics. I get that the intended message is that get vaccinated is our ticket to travel/open borders but this reeks of political elitism that alienates people.
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@sumeyyailanbey
Has Dvir Abramovich said anything about the number of far-right candidates that are more than happy to be associated with anti-Semitic conspiracy theories? I think it's a bit silly to be more concerned about the 'Nazi' label on these candidates than the candidates themselves...
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This the type of content the rest of the country is missing out on because they're too cowardly for metropolitan-wide governments smh
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As Howard has pointed out many times, oversupply has happened in Australia before and it reduced prices! This isn't controversial or groundbreaking stuff. It's just the on-the-ground reality!
One of the weirdest parts of upzoning debates is on one side there's a mountain of evidence, including from the RBA and NSW Productivity Commission that the kind of obvious point that building lots of housing reduces housing costs, and the NIMBY counterargument is 'nuh-uh'
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Remember to pray for the council officers at the City of Darebin🙏🙏
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I want to take Max in good faith here but he's completely omitting that he argued against the development on grounds relating to traffic, removal of a community garden and trees.
The development had more public park space than currently exists and was going to replant trees
I can think of at least 10 locations across Griffith ideal for public housing developments that I would actively support and encourage. But State and Fed Gov instead are choosing to chronically underfund public housing and hand over public land to property developers.
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I'm a big fan of these arches being included in more developments. They're just so pleasant!
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Fantastic piece on "The Great Housing Hijack" hijack. Peddling borderline misinformation will only lead us to inequitable and fictional solutions:
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CIS Chief Economist
@peter_tulip
spoke with
@zachariasszumer
from
@jacobin
on the problem of NIMBYism.
Local councils tend to be the main locus of NIMBYism, believing (rightly or wrongly) that their constituents oppose development.
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@SouthwickMP
@BradBattinMP
@VicParliament
@CoalitionVic
@aus_jewishnews
@jccvic
One of your MPs was on the steps with them bud. Care to comment?
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James Newsbury in The Age when asked about the Future Homes program:
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@jeff_kennett
You're oddly silent on the Federal coalition government being in a very similar situation. I wonder why.......
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This gets to the core of NIMBYism (and some heritage folk)—it's fundamentally about fear of change. Everything else is reverse-engineered from that core.
Today SMH is covering Haberfield, the inner suburb full of 800sqm houses which can never change.
We’ve got a bunch of quotes in it but we’re upstaged by one that goes straight to the NIMBY hall of fame.
What can we do about it? Read on….
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I feel like it's a mask off moment to claim the SRL precincts are like (((Beijing & Hong Kong)))
There's significant differences between the two and to imply they're the same is a very odd choice....
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NIMBYs that weaponise heritage in bad faith, not only unintentionally seek to make Melbourne more unlivable, but they also delegitimise heritage as a valid part of urban renewal discourse.
The last thing you see before bleeding out in the Austin Hospital ER
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Melbourne's rental crisis in one image.
If on minimum wage, the red is 60% more of weekly income; if orange it's between 38-60%.
Our housing system needs to be fixed. Radical reform is needed.
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I would kill to live on top of an ALDI
An Aldi with housing above is probably the biggest policy win a city can hope to achieve
I love shopping like I'm in East Germany in 1959 knowing I'm getting rock bottom prices for groceries
I love Aldi
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Anyone who pays close attention to local planning knows that new grocery stores nearly always face strong community backlash and significant hurdles in finding a suitable place to even be built.
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Here's me in
@crikey_news
talking about vertical fiscal imbalances and why state governments are abandoning public housing 👇
Public housing is on its way out and community housing on the rise. But why? As YIMBY Melbourne organiser
@hillfolkAU
writes, it has everything to do with how the federal government funds the states.
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@Melbchief
IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT WOMEN. IT'S ABOUT THE WORKPLACE CULTURE THAT ALLOWS THESE THINGS TO HAPPEN
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As a left-winger, whilst understandable, I wish more of us understood how big of a barrier the Australian constitution is for bold ideas.
Even a policy as mild as Labor’s Help to Buy scheme is “unconstitutional”.
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The Vic Government has sneakily updated the Future Homes page to announce that it's being expanded to FOUR to FIVE stories!
This is HUGE!
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Two buildings very similar in scale. One shows a mature, steady hand, confidence, humility, and respect. The other is what almost every developer builds everywhere these days, and what most design codes are more likely to demand.
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I try my best not to be snarky online, but damn, I struggle to have sympathy and kindness for those that so aggressively dislike the idea of social housing in their leafy green wealthy suburb.
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Instead of raising $35,000 dollars to fight against new housing. How about you donate to fight homelessness? 👇
ANNOUNCING: Save Nicholson Street Village
Homelessness is a housing problem. That's why we're doing our part to save Nicholson Street, and raise money for
@LaunchHousing
's Parachute Fund to support individuals and families at risk of homelessness.
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Great to see
@vic_socialists
fight against immigration scapegoating when it comes to the housing crisis.
We CAN build enough homes of all types to house EVERYONE!
@mayorquimby123
The difference is that during that time the government was building A LOT of public housing to ensure an adequate housing supply. We need to fight for that kind action today, and that won't be helped by blaming migrants for this crisis.
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@jesushobo
@purplepingers
With respect, no need to @ someone to say you hate them! It's a bit rude innit
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New back yard acronym just dropped thanks to the NSW Productivity Commission!
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@yimbymelbourne
You have misspelled the word 'storey'.
Two storeys is not one storey. You can excavate a basement (like they do in London) instead. The materials and colours in this eyesore don't belong in this neighbourhood.
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It's interesting to suggest that an apartment in the North Shore will cost the same as a large detached single dwelling.
It's also disappointing Hanmer seems disinterested in allowing more people to live closer to the CBD!
If you put more housing in high-priced suburbs, you will get more high-priced housing. This Minns brainwave will do nothing for affordability, but may well wreck Sydney.
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I think some of these people say "medium density" and "Haberfield" and then completely lost the ability to read:
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Certified City of Darebin moment: The Mayor starts the meeting by asking councillors to not be abusive to one another.
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Vacant land tax is good! But the obsession with it being a key tool to fixing the housing crisis is misguided.
It's been demonstrated numerous times the number of vacant homes is insignificant in scale.
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An underrated barrier to local government participation: needing a computer with 64GB of RAM so you can open council meeting pdf.
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It's so frustrating that negative gearing reformers push for it as a policy for improving rental prices. It simply will not improve rents and that's fine!
It's a bad taxation policy that we should fix on those grounds! Reducing generational inequality is good!
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"Giving residents the right to build granny flats without a planning permit rides roughshod over community concerns and could irreversibly change streetscapes"
Does anyone in the City of Boroondara know what a granny flat is? Absurd.
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Who advises Pesutto on infrastructure? He needs to let them go. The evidence from authorities such as Infrastructure Victoria states that in-fill infrastructure is cheaper than under urban sprawl!
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No matter what you think of the Preston Market redevelopment plans, the new parking overlay demanding that there be no net loss to the number of market car parks is TERRIBLE!
It's right next to a train station, tram stop and fantastic cycling infrastructure. Utter lunacy!
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It's hard to take people seriously when they claim objections against developments have more to do with protecting the community than protecting wealth.
The data suggests those with the highest socio-economic status object the most.
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The Suburban Rail Loop East precinct visions just DROPPED! Transit oriented development is IN babbbbyyy
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Renting a house in Australia costs just $39 more a week than renting a unit, compared to a difference of $64 a year ago, new research shows.
Say it with me now: WE NEED MORE APARTMENTS
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@JoshFrydenberg
Wow. I was going to vote for Monique Ryan but now that there was some miscommunication about painting a mural, I can't possibly vote for her :( This is a big election issue
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As an ALP member this is quite an embarrassing way to publicly concede your seat. This sort of entitlement does nothing but further alienate voters.
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I find it upsetting that notable experts in the field of urban planning over the past few days have pointed to the constraints in the building sector as proof the planning system and local government are not an issue at all.
It's a deeply confusing position.
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Some types of NIMBYs can be described in no other way than evil.
Just utterly deplorable.
Hotel in affluent Brisbane suburb ceases offering emergency accommodation after resident’s letter campaign
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This is why it's imperative that we build more single-bedroom dwellings across the board.
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It's an absolute no-brainer to allow faith-based organisations to build social and affordable housing on their land.
The fact that a barrier is heritage overlays forced onto religious buildings - against the wishes of these groups - is wild.
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This is a prime example of why Victoria's rate capping regime leads to worse outcomes for everyone.
Local Council's are being forced to implement austerity measures to keep their spending in line with their capped rates.
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Remember this is in response to wanting to build community and public housing......
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The phrase "1 billion Australians" is like the bat signal for people dropped on their heads as a kid.
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Brah the Stonnington Planning Scheme currently contains 16 different schedules to the GRZ with most containing variations to the maximum building height provisions.
What a hellscape
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@HowardFMaclean
America truly has complete cultural control over us ay. I'd argue the same is very true about free university discourse.
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@georgiecrozier
It's almost like the state opposition party has been publicly undermining the state government's health advice this entire pandemic.......
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It doesn't matter who pays that tax!!! If the Airbnb owner is charged they'll raise the price. If the user is charged the price is increased.
It's the same thing!!
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You've gotta give it to NIMBYs finding new innovative ways of being utterly unhinged <3
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The fiscal imbalance between the Commonwealth and states creates a perverse incentive for the states to offload as many services to private non-profits as possible as they can provide MORE services for MORE people.
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Amendment VC243 just dropped:
It seems the Future Homes program has been expanded from 400m to 800m from train stations or activity centres! That's a massive shift!!!
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