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New Sydney housing targets rattle advocates and developers smh.com.au/politics/nsw/n…
'Shelter NSW said in its submission to the consultation that the 2% component should be increased “to better reflect housing market value increases due to value uplift with higher rates potentially

Our cities are littered with buildings like the one shown below (top)

We can adaptively reuse them and create something better (bottom)

Wellington House in Wimbledon by MATT Architecture

architectsjournal.co.uk/specification/…

More shading like this!!!

There were a record 713,144 international students in Australia as of the end of February 2024.
The Albanese government must recognise that nearly two-thirds of Australians want lower immigration, with half wanting drastic cuts

macrobusiness.com.au/2024/04/univer…

Great Sydney rainy day parks 2;
Ballast Point Park in Balmain by landscape architects McGregor Coxall with #chrofi .
Wondrous point park with views to harbour, complexity of levels & spaces, great cascading gabion terrace walls, industrial archaeology, intimacy
#publicsydney

I mistook this image for a residential subdivision in Melbourne’s (or. Sydney’s) outskirts. Symbolically (and near visually) identical!

This article is clearly bait but I'm glad it concludes with such a practical way forward.
thesaturdaypaper.com.au/life/cities/20…

The best apartments in the world are being built in France

This by Parages Architectes has cross ventilation to all living spaces and straw insulation

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.

Pete Wargent If it's <400m from a TOD station on the North Shore, $7-11million (real estate agents are telling residents). If it's >800m, $3 million.

Summary: my guess Lindfield & Roseville most immediately attractive & best returns to develop, so faster there

Killara least attractive. Gordon more piecemeal & a risk of copping for developer contributions to improve tired town centre (this mostly already done at Lindfield)

Roseville: again I can see a chunk going in here because its proximity to Chatswood makes it attractive. A lot to the east was prevented with a questionable HCA, this will essentially go

With less strong NIMBYs than Killara, I think likely

W side of highway extremely steep here

Those Kuringai rezonings in full….

If everything within the circles is now subject to the TOD then changes may not be as significant as you think

Labor Lies
why isn’t Rose Jackson advocating for affordable housing in the ToDs and low/mid rise housing plans????

Why isn’t she stopping the privatisation of #Waterloo public housing if she cares about housing vulnerable person?

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NSW has more than 40,000 unused 'ghost homes'

⁦Chris Minns⁩ why arent you addressing this? eliteagent.com/nsw-has-more-t…

'The Government, and in particular the Premier, don't want to enact the park until they can find a way of making money out of the trees.'

Senior Fellow Stephen Long speaking to NBN News
#auspol

Why is NSW Chris Minns allowing such poor development??

newcastleherald.com.au/story/8581096/…

population.org.au/media-releases…
According to the latest survey from The Australian Population Research Institute (TAPRI), a decisive 71% of voters say Australia does not need more people, reinforcing the fact that Australian voters are saying NO to a big Australia