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Last night over 200 people completely packed out the Lady Hampshire to demand more homes.
To turn this into real change we’re going to need many hands in councils across Sydney.
Become a member:
Join our discord where we organise:
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Today the govt has announced that they’re basically upzoning everything within 800m of stations. 3-6 storeys by default in R3 zones, townhouses and small apartment buildings in R2 zones. This is the very rare policy that actually meets the scale of our housing crisis head on.
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1.2 million visitors vs 300 local residents. Unfortunately a council has once again caved to a small minority of busybodies, and our city will be worse off as a result.
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Very illuminating that the guy who actually builds award winning not-for-profit housing is telling us his biggest problem is planning laws while the politician who says he wants more of that housing says it’s something else.
#qanda
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12 of the 13 councils have taken the deal on the TOD or bettered the govt’s number of units. Canterbury-Bankstown has asked for three more stations to become TODs.
The last one, Ku-ring-gai, didn’t want to negotiate, so they’re being upzoned to six storeys this month.
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Truly an issue that cuts across our city’s socio-economic divide
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Not often you can get the newspaper to do a victim shot because somebody put a note in your letterbox offering you $3m
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Burwood council has thrown down the gauntlet: this is what every metro station in Sydney should look like
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By heritage listing entire suburbs of identical bungalows we devalue heritage as a concept.
When 50% of City of Sydney is under heritage conservation, at some point in the near future you’re going to need to start making decisions about which bits actually matter and which don’t
The YIMBY's would love to see this knocked down, lots of high rise Meriton apartments in its place.
Heritage listings? Who needs that
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This really is a bit much.
The proposal is for 6 storeys in a handful of locations.
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Today the NSW Liberals passed this motion calling for upzoning all lots within walking distance of train stations.
If implemented *this* is the scale of action we need to resolve the housing crisis.
Congrats to advocates
@ChrisRathMLC
and
@KovacicMaria
on this win.
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The Balmain peninsula, 100% covered by heritage conservation areas, no longer has the population to sustain a full service supermarket. They’ll now have to drive over 4km to Broadway or Leichhardt.
Blanket HCAs are the enemy of walkable communities.
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Max Chandler-Mather: “It’s just not true”
Karvelas: “What’s not true”
MCM: “That planning is the reason houses are so expensive”
Karvelas: “It’s part of the reason”
MCM: “No it’s not. It’s just not.”
#qanda
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Marvel need to get more creative with their supervillains
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People thought they were getting a train station, not losing their neighbourhood.
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One of last night’s housing town hall attendees did so after having being evicted that same day, and finding he could no longer afford to stay in the inner west.
He also endured the brunt of the rude planner at the end who was yelling at him that he didn’t deserve to live here.
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Hundreds of people are here at our launch to say yes to more housing!
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NIMBYs spend half their time opposing housing because “we don’t have enough infrastructure”, and the other half opposing infrastructure because it might lead to more housing.
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Puzzle: which of these streetscapes are from the unique heritage suburb of Haberfield?
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The government has indicated they want to focus on increasing mid-rise apartment block completions from 6000 to 10-20,000 units per year. They’ll focus on bus lines, older shopping villages and along arterial roads. Big ✅ from us!
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Train station changes map.
Light orange = 3-6 storey apartments
Green = townhouse, 2 storey apartments (unlikely to be feasible in inner city tho)
Dark orange = heritage restrictions, nothing will be build there
Today the govt has announced that they’re basically upzoning everything within 800m of stations. 3-6 storeys by default in R3 zones, townhouses and small apartment buildings in R2 zones. This is the very rare policy that actually meets the scale of our housing crisis head on.
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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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25,000 homes on the site of Rosehill racecourse is a very good number. For comparison the 2015 Sydenham-Bankstown upzoning proposed 35,000 homes across *10* stations.
This is the kind of ambition we require to build ourselves out of the housing crisis.
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Probably the most Sydney YIMBY-coded policy of all time. Let’s get it done!
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Ku-ring-gai councillor boils down the fundamental conflict at play here:
City without grandchildren
vs
Why does my suburb have to look different to when I was a kid
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Jeez, you don’t even need to read between the lines here, do you?
Outdoor dining and the Indian community are 1000x more important to the heritage of Harris Park than whatever these people are trying to preserve.
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Instead of 30% of 3900 homes at Riverwood being public housing we now get 50% of 420? What an unmitigated disaster for those on the waiting list.
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Heritage Council lashes the NSW Government for not considering low-rise options over the top of *Central station*, as they’re not happy with the office towers.
This is a serious blow to their credibility.
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Cute apartment building in Five Dock. They should be permitting this level of density across the whole suburb with the new metro going in.
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When they say “you can still build things in Balmain” this is what they mean:
- only three storeys
- third storey is a shameful addition that has to be set back from the street lest it cause psychological distress
- 40 car spaces
We can do so much better!
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Retired teacher gets $5m ✅
50 people get homes ✅
Koalas keep their habitat ✅
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Balmain’s heritage rules are actively hostile to young families
This is exactly the scenario YIMBYs describe though?
People bought in on modest incomes decades ago and now enjoy a lifestyle you’d need to be in the top 1% to afford in 2024: a house in Balmain + basic living expenses.
They have *millions* in assets.
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We think property prices going up by 70% over 2 years are a bigger threat to the character of areas than building homes for people.
There is an absolutely astonishing amount of human misery in these north coast towns at the moment, and the ‘no’ side have no plan to address it.
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This is absolutely correct. People shouldn’t have to commute for 3hrs a day and never see their kids because somebody in Lilyfield doesn’t want to have apartments next door. It’s time to match targets more closely to land prices and densify wealthy areas.
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Amendment in favour of Option 1A (six storeys) has been successfully moved 9-6, the motion is carried.
Huge win! Thanks for everyone who attended the meeting, spoke and wrote to councillors advocating for more housing!
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Nightingale is a not-for-profit developer renowned for high quality builds. When even they get this sort of treatment from councils, it’s pretty obvious that the nature of the objections are pure obstructionism.
So many ‘progressives’, regurgitate the fallacy that housing supply is causing the housing crisis. Then they bash councils for blocking supply. This is complete rubbish. Here’s my take on the issue in
@BrunswickVoice
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NIMBYism gets a lot of intellectual cover from academics but at the coalface it’s exactly this: opposition to 3-4 storey apartments near light rail close to the city, while trying to push new residents onto noisy, polluted roads
This is being handed out at a polling booth today:
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Townhouses are suitable for family living. What’s not suitable for most families is the median $2.2m detached house in Castle Hill - they’ll simply never afford it.
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Whenever today’s NIMBYs complain about a lack of infrastructure it always pays to check whether yesterday’s NIMBYs created the problem.
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Burwood council are running a petition against rezoning Croydon for six storeys, have your say here:
Takes 15 seconds.
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Livable for whom? The median house price in Strathfield is $3.2m.
Every year liveable neighbourhoods have been destroyed and replaced with poorly serviced clumps of skyscrapers. The destruction of Sydney must cease …. starting here in Strathfield.
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People want there to be a solution to the housing crisis which means their suburb doesn’t have to change. This is why vacant homes gets waved around by every NIMBY group despite the numbers saying it’s a rounding error.
We look forward to these people moving on to serious policy
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I know this won't be popular with everyone - but the truth is we don't have a choice but to do it.
If we want to be a city that our kids can actually afford to live in, we must build upwards.
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This guy has now posted a rant to the local facebook group
There was a guy afterwards yelling at people “what gives you the right to live here? when has there ever been housing built here that’s affordable for people like you?” and saying he was an expert because he had a masters of planning.
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Frank needs to decide whether these reforms are going to turn us into India or stop us playing cricket, because it can’t be both!
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That entire peninsula is heritage conservation areas so if they’re serious about having a precinct out to 1.2km they’re going to have to override it.
That’d be a phenomenal win for Balmain, where the proportion of 25-34yr olds has halved in the last 20yrs due to unaffordability.
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Great news: we’re going to see some tall buildings in heritage conservation areas!
That entire peninsula is heritage conservation areas so if they’re serious about having a precinct out to 1.2km they’re going to have to override it.
That’d be a phenomenal win for Balmain, where the proportion of 25-34yr olds has halved in the last 20yrs due to unaffordability.
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City of Sydney are once again threatening us with a good time
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Interesting insights on what happens to common apartment inclusions when buyers get a say.
Parking spots are even more expensive in Sydney (est. $50-100K), but in most council areas you can’t opt out due to parking minimums. We should fix these rules!
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This week councils will be voting on their response to the govt’s new density program.
Some of these reports are truly awful, we’ll post examples below.
We need you to contact your councillors to make sure they support new homes around train stations:
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In contrast to recent proposals by the majors to jack up purchaser demand, it’s great to see advocacy from the Greens to spend money on the supply side.
Need to target this investment to inner city locations near infrastructure rather than koala habitat.
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Thanks to
@LucyTurnbull_AO
for her very kind words about us at today’s Press Club address.
Our idea of ending low density zoning in Sydney keeps getting escalated to bigger and bigger platforms. Watch the whole thing, it’s well worth your time:
Lucy
@LucyTurnbull_AO
and I are both speaking at
@PressClubAust
today giving the Griffin Lecture on Cities hosted by
@AusINSArchitect
and moderated by
@latingle
- broadcast on the ABC at 1230 AEST
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Save Greater Sydney rally:
- about 100-150 people
- loud cheers for stopping immigration
- several Liberals spoke, in defiance of their own party platform and pleas from their youth wing
- everyone’s favourite Canterbury-Bankstown councillor showed up with the below sign
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176 signatories to a petition to Ku-ring-gai Council against a childcare centre at 5 Holmes St, Turramurra.
Alarming anti-infrastructure stance from local residents.
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It’s baffling to us that the mayor of North Sydney says YIMBY/NIMBY politics is divisive in the next breath after she compares the state govt’s upzoning policy to one of the most repressive dictatorships from behind the iron curtain.
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Some extremely cursed outcomes from Randwick Council meeting last night. Stopping student accommodation on a car park opposite the uni, stopping creating new parkland on a golf course, and trying to object to a development outside their borders.
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Thanks to member
@clayden_michael
for all his work in Ku-ring-gai. It’s an absolutely dire situation for his generation and council doesn’t seem to care at all.
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75% of residential land around train stations is only zoned for single-dwelling detached housing, and in many cases an entry level dwelling costs over $2m. The exodus of young people and those on lower incomes means this can’t continue.
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Councils love to declare more than half their LGA to be heritage conservation areas then complain about lack of planning staff.
If you make it so 70% of people need council assessment to paint their fence of course it’s going to put a strain on resources!
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Save Marrickville founder here admits her development opposition is not about better transport, greenspace or amenities, she just doesn’t want “too many more people.”
The most vocal subgroup of NIMBYs are simply intractable.
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We predict that councils’ alternate plans will be some combination of:
1. Forcing apartments onto main roads
2. Pushing development away from their richest suburbs
3. Applying extra criteria to tank feasibility
4. Asking for extra extensions beyond 6mo
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Two suburbs next door to each other in Burwood Council. One already has a bunch of apartments, the other is fighting tooth and nail against mid-rise.
See if you can pick which is which.
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Time to fight for a Sydney where everyone can afford to be as sheltered as this guy from Ku-ring-gai Council.
Make a submission on the mid-rise housing code here:
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Brave soldiers are winning the war in north shore fb comments 🫡
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Don’t threaten us with a good time!
A major announcement from the NSW Department of Planning and Environment (DPE) could see an explosion of medium and higher density residential development on the Northern Beaches.
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Heritage and parking requirements mean two families don’t get a home. Great job everyone!
Make a submission here asking for this to be scaled back up and parking requirements to be removed:
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This building is important enough that Marrickville Council chose to include it in the King St/Enmore Rd heritage conservation area, which significantly limits what can be done with it.
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This Tuesday we have the first test of the state govt’s new planning laws when Inner West tries to heritage list four $3m bungalows that would together form a development site for dozens of townhouses or low-rise apartments. 🧵 1/5
Attend the meeting:
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Detached houses are already the province of the super-rich, that’s why we have to build units.
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Astonishing that in 2020 this project was the exact midpoint of the Overton window for housing, with the motion to heritage list the derelict church being narrowly defeated 7-6.
2020 - derelict church zero use value
2024 - 54 NFP housing units, 4 social housing units that positively contribute to the Illawarra rd street scale
More of this in the Inner West.
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Chris Minns now up. Calls out Sydney YIMBY:
“It's rare that advocates have had such a big impact in such a short space of time and you should be congratulated for it in my view.”
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News that the state government is cutting targets in French’s Forest from 6,000 to 2,000 is baffling.
There’s a brand new hospital, and now the essential workers who keep it running will have to commute for hours across Sydney, because there aren’t enough homes near their work.
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Areas with the highest amenity should not have declining populations
In their submissions both major parties essentially acknowledge North Sydney and Warringah have to be merged in some way given their current enrolment and low (or in fact negative) growth
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There’s a new six storey development in Lilyfield (added only 131 new dwellings over last 10yrs) that’s being petitioned against by Friends of Callan Park bc they think it adds too much “bulk” in close proximity to the park
You can make a submission here:
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It’s now ‘entitled’ for young people to want to live somewhere they’re being actively priced out of.
@avocalminority
@SydneyYIMBY
@ajamesbragg
Well said. to put it bluntly, a bunch of younger entitled middle class people who wish they could buy in Newtown where ‘it’s all happening’ but because they can’t afford it, they want to destroy the suburb with high-rise. And, they think developer interests align with their own.
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This announcement went under the radar but NSW now has 400 people enforcing building quality, up from 40
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Our public launch will be on 27 July at the Lady Hampshire in Camperdown, featuring a panel of experts discussing how we can achieve housing abundance in Sydney.
Book your free tickets:
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Nightingale Marrickville development nears completion, delivering 50 below market rate units, after spending “more than $1m” fighting councillors who wanted to heritage list a dilapidated and disused church
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Telling young people to rack off the Mittagong or Goulburn so they can build somewhere without heritage.
Buddy you’re never going to guess what those train stations are surrounded by!
(Red lines = Heritage conservation areas
Tan boxes = Heritage items)
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NSW Young Libs have passed this motion backing the TOD program. It’s a brave and principled move by them; reinforces the urgency of the crisis.
It’s time for
@scottfarlow
and
@MarkSpeakman
to show some compassion for the young people of NSW and follow suit.
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People love to throw “insufficient infrastructure” around as an anti-development excuse but it’s particularly funny for Kensington:
- Public school below capacity
- Big recent hospital upgrade
- New light rail
- New park next door
@SydneyYIMBY
Are you guys jealous for people to live in low density housing with public open spaces? Why does a city like Sydney have to occupied with high rises without sufficient infrastructure?
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Council has ignored the community, ignored the large number of young people who’ve turned out today and heritage listed four $3m houses which could instead be dozens of apartments or townhouses.
People are sick of this stuff!
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Next Tuesday 20 June Inner West Council is proposing to heritage list 15 electricity substations, much like these. We’ve written about it here: 🧵
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