What government is doing (pink) vs what they should be doing (blue) to lower house prices (i.e. improve affordability) grattan.edu.au/wp-content/upl…

What are the best YIMBY Twitter accounts in Australia? I nominate Peter Tulip, Heritage: Why? and Greater Canberra.

Great 8-storey glowup on the corner of Kerr and Gore St, Fitzroy. Looking forward to all that the ~100 new neighbours will bring to the area. kerstinthompson.com/index.php?id=3…

When I look at this lovely illustration of Melbourne all I can see is our failure to increase density north of the CBD.

“Community input,” where the 0.001% of the population who shows up to meetings gets to veto the actions of people elected by over half of it, is just voter suppression with extra steps.

99.9% of driving in Aus is done on public roads. How is it even legal for Tesla to advertise this top speed? Right now I'm safe in inner-Melb because these cars are owned by rich well-intentioned greenies. When it gets passed down to their teenagers people are going to die.

Abbotsford’s character is ruined by cars on footpaths.

🇦🇺 Crikey! The hidden fees report on Australian banks was so intriguing I thought I should ask the Aussie twitter to confirm that our team got the math and screenshots right? /1

When you hear NIMBYs complaining about shade in their backyard or having to park further down the street or the preservation of unremarkable suburban buildings, please weigh this against what the housing shortage is doing to renters. Like Mat, from the Inner west:

I put up a mini-site today at citydensity.com to help you compare the world’s cities. You can see how many people live near a city, or use my favourite metric: "population weighted density" to get an accurate measure of how dense a city is to live in.

Gambling is one thing I’ve flipped on as I got older. I used to laugh off the critics and think of gambling as “a tax on those who can’t do math” but I’ve come to think that’s cruel (and regressive) and paternalism is good here. This paper is another brick in that new wall.