Sydney YIMBY

Next up is an independent councillor that says new social housing in Belmore is an “8 storey Ghetto”. Social and affordable housing for people who need it? Not in her backyard. For women over 55, who are at higher risk of homelessness? Still no.

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The only thing NIMBYs are more opposed to than providing market-rate housing is providing more social housing

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Inner West Greens are hosting a meeting to “force a grassroots planning process” on a DA to replace ten $3m houses with 156 apartments near the new Dulwich Hill Metro station. Metro, light rail, the Greenway. It may be one of the best places for more housing in the city!

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Until Inner-Sydney councils get serious about facilitating the delivery of more housing, the HDA and SSDs will continue to be an essential part of the housing pipeline.

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Tom Flood

@tomflood.bsky.social

Absolutely incredible bike tour of Sydney from Sara Stace. If you don’t know her she is a force for change. While I sit around complaining she is out there changing things from the inside that leads to real change on the ground.

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Boston’s chief planner is a true believer in the San Francisco model, in which you make it impossible to profitably build apartments by-right so developers are forced into a politicized discretionary negotiation with the city, which relaxes the rules in exchange for below-market units.

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Perhaps not many Liberal Party members here, but if you're a member or live in one of their electorates you should write to your MPs to ask what’s going on here. Adding apartment buildings around the three(!) new Metro stations in the Drummoyne electorate shows “contempt” for it apparently.

We’re quoted in SMH today in support of Inner West’s Fairer Future Plan 2. Maybe the most astonishing quote in the article comes from the local MP who seems to outright reject the idea of mid-rise housing in established suburbs. We’ve put a map of the Lilyfield plan in replies—it’s quite good!

Lilyfield has a median house price of $2.55m and: - a light rail stop - express buses to the city - an upcoming cycleway linking to the Greenway, the Metro and Anzac Bridge - a full service supermarket - 60 ha of open space There are few better locations in Sydney for new homes.

www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

smh.com.auA Sydney council wants to add thousands of homes. Residents oppose such ‘radical change’A plan that would allow 20-storey unit blocks in an inner-west suburb has enraged residents. Housing advocates welcome the proposal for more mid-rise apartments.

Croydon station is 8 km from central. This is the kind of attitude that leads to homes costing 3x what they should www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

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Time for Woollahra to share. Sydney YIMBY Committee Member Dom Behrens in tomorrow's SMH, bringing much needed facts to a discussion desperately in need of it

Time for Woollahra to share. Sydney YIMBY Committee Member Dom Behrens in tomorrow's SMH, bringing much needed facts to a discussion desperately in need of it

www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

smh.com.auFor 50 years we’ve let Woollahra off the hook. It’s time the suburb learnt to shareBecause it is such a great place to live, those who enjoy it already are desperately trying to find ways for others not to.

Hard to square the assertion that people won’t complain about gentle density with how much mayors are whinging about removing their ability to reject such density. This one from Ryde.

Importantly, the kinds of development that don't need to be notified are ones that are within the existing planning controls. This is curtain-twitchers getting mad when somebody wants to do something entirely within the rules, and they can't try and work the refs to stop it

smh.com.auThe Sydney suburb that fought 150 new units – and ended up with 130Residents won their first battle in a fight to stop a new development but fear they might lose the war.

Residents get some of what they want, still aren't happy... What would even be the point of more consultation? They would continue to say that its too tall and they still hate it. Meanwhile, it would mean further delays www.smh.com.au/property/new...

Not undertaking further consultation is the right call. Consulting on every tiny change (especially when it's in lone with demands of those already consulted) just makes society worse. It's part of how we got into the housing mess we're in!

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YIMBY Melbourne

@yimby.melbourne

It's a mystery how we got a housing shortage...

inflectionpoints.workAgainst ‘Affordable’ Housing | Inflection PointsIt’s not the same as social housing, and it doesn’t help those most in need. Australia is spending big on ‘affordable’ housing—but we shouldn’t.

Or as it's described here, "affordable" housing. Politicians love spruiking it as a solution to housing affordability, but it is anything but. What is needed is more housing across the board inflectionpoints.work/a/against-af...

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈@maxdubler.com

So-called “inclusionary zoning,” the practice of requiring home builders to rent new apartments at a loss to low-income tenants, is a tax on new housing that worsens the housing shortage and raises rents overall in exchange for a handful of means-tested units. It’s bad policy!

thecooldown.comGreater Boston builders say affordable-unit rules stall housing, but Boston won't budgeDevelopers and city leaders across Greater Boston are clashing over whether affordable-housing requirements are helping address the region's housing shortage.

If you ever wonder why housing construction costs have become so out of control in Sydney. One case in Parramatta where before approval is received for a duplex you're commissioning 30 different expert reports.

The Australian Productivity Commission@pc.gov.au

How hard is it to get approvals to build a home? 🏘️ In the ProdCast clip, PC Chair details our interim findings on the housing approvals process. What is your experience? Take our short survey on the #housing approvals process: https://bit.ly/3SzvfXa Closes 30 September

Is this really bringing any value to society. Or does it just provide a shopping list of excuses for NIMBY councils to say no to more housing for people?

We would currently have a lot more art deco flats in Woollahra Council if not for 100 years of tradition of upholding bans explicitly initiated to keep the poors out. The street in Rose Bay mentioned at the end recently got declared a mid-rise zone by Minns under the LMR. 🎉

She’s talking about plans to build new apartments in the richest area in the country. Good on the Guardian giving a voice to the poor downtrodden residents of ... checks notes ... Woollahra.

Woollahra Council are holding a meeting next Wednesday about the state rezoning plan. We need you to register to speak. Details are in this email: mailchi.mp/yimby.au/we-...

Mid-rise apartments in Drummoyne are now approved in Land & Environment Court. Interesting part of the Judgment: if the state has said your street is mid-rise under the LMR, that’s now the desired future character. Council whingers in a shambles.

caselaw.nsw.gov.au Prosper Land St Georges Crescent Drummoyne Pty Limited v City of Canada Bay Council - NSW Caselaw

Judgement for anyone interested www.caselaw.nsw.gov.au/decision/1a0...

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Peter Tulip

@petertulip.bsky.social

Do NIMBYs have good faith objections to density that could be accommodated? Works in Progress has published several suggestions for minimising opposition. But @resnikoff.bsky.social argues that NIMBYs are unreasonable; so compromise won’t work. 1/2

Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social

New Public Comment on the persistent fantasy of low-conflict housing policy publiccomment.blog/p/sometimes-...

publiccomment.blogSometimes You Just Need to WinSometimes you just need to win

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Guy who has never been to New York City or the San Francisco Bay Area: rich people would NEVER move into modest homes built for the middle class.

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The absolute audacity of Woollahra council putting #housingcrisis on their facebook post trying to prevent rezoning in their LGA! A signal that they're actually fighting on the side of the housing crisis?

smh.com.auHousing and heritage ‘can coexist’ as images reveal how towers would change WoollahraHeritage items would be “generally” kept, and not directly demolished, to build 9400 homes – but there are two bigger risks in sight.

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Heritage listing entire suburbs, especially right next to the CBD is incompatible with the aim of housing affordability. The Woollahra plan is a start, but there's plenty of other areas where old buildings are prioritised over people who need housing. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

19 Sept

Absolutely loving this row of 4 terraces from the NSW pattern book in Cronulla shared by one of our members. What was a single house can soon be home to 4 households! And since it's pattern book, they're basically plug and play.

18 Sept

Rozelle residents raising the dark possibility that surface car parks or storage facilities might be replace with… 👻 homes for people 👻

15 Sept

Lavender Bay development opponents claim this apartment building is “out of character” for its position in the North Sydney CBD. Despite being surrounded by other tall buildings. What do you think? Link to make a submission in favour below ⤵️

www.planningportal.nsw.gov.au/major-projec...

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planningportal.nsw.gov.auMixed-use Development Mackenzie St, Lavender Bay | Planning Portal - Department of Planning and Environment

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curbed.comThe Last NIMBY in a YIMBY TownAndrew Berman’s crusade to preserve the West Village has put him at odds with just about everyone.

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Unless the building is of truly extraordinary merit and/or the building itself is closely tied to important historic events, I am a strong believer in the “lay a plaque and keep it moving” method of marking historical places.

David Schleicher@profschleich.bsky.social

If you want honor sites of sociocultural importance ...“just put up a fucking plaque. This is New York City. It’s not like it’s Paris or some European capital. It’s truer to the spirit of New York to tear down and rebuild instead of putting the city behind glass.” www.curbed.com/article/andr...

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curbed.comThe Last NIMBY in a YIMBY TownThe longtime New York City preservationist Andrew Berman has been on a crusade to protect Greenwich Village’s character for decades. It used to make him a hero, now it’s put him at odds with just about everyone.

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“Landmarking just preserves pretty things. And it’s not like preserving the buildings keeps neighborhoods as they were. If that were the case the West Village would be full of artists and folk singers.” - @profschleich.bsky.social

Curbed@curbed.com

The longtime New York City preservationist Andrew Berman has been on a crusade to protect Greenwich Village’s character for decades. It used to make him a hero, now it’s put him at odds with just about everyone.

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sydney.yimby.auSubmission Guide: 13,000 homes at Westmead South! — Sydney YIMBYThe NSW Government has announced a Draft Westmead South Precinct Rezoning Proposal, which is a big deal for housing in this part of Sydney. It will deliver:  Around 13,000 new homes south of W...

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While some in the eastern suburbs scream bloody murder over 9800 homes in Woollahra, there’s 13,000 homes on exhibition in Westmead South and barely a peep. Rich areas think they should be able to opt out, we think everywhere should help out Submission guide for Westmead below

In short, we think this is a great plan, and it's clear from a wealth of research and experience that permitting more homes to be built -> more homes being built -> homes being more affordable across the board. Our submission guide is here www.sydney.yimby.au/blog/submiss...

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appi.org.auThe impacts of Heritage Conservation Areas on housing delivery in Sydney: A call for reform - Australian Public Policy Institute

New report from the Aus Public Policy Institute finds that Heritage Conservation Areas constrain housing supply and says there needs to be more accountability for their impacts. We strongly agree! Full report linked below

The impacts of Heritage Conservation Areas on housing delivery in Sydney appi.org.au/report/the-i...

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We don't think that heritage is worthless, or that there aren't things worth preserving. But it's well past time we had a serious conversation about how much heritage protection costs.

We might not pay for it directly, but we pay for it in higher housing costs, time wasted, and people forced to move away to cheaper housing. It's clear that plenty of people want to live in the inner areas of our amazing city. They should be able to - it'll be even better that way!

Sydney YIMBY sees the impacts of excessive heritage protection on our city. It means people are forced to live hours away from friends and family. Hours wasted commuting every week. All because a few people have decided their vision of our city is the only one allowed!