Patrick Condon's housing model is wrong. But it's wrong in some pretty interesting & pseudo-Georgist ways.

So let's go through them. 🧵

Mandarin Majors for Kevin Rudd🌏 Unironically convinced a Kevin McCloud-presented Grand Designs focused on great medium density builds would change the world.

It's our birthday we can reform if we want to.

On May 22, come join the team and celebrate one year of YIMBY Melbourne.

🎟️🎟️🎟️ are free and they're here: events.humanitix.com/yimby-melbourn…

Racking my brain, I can think of one or two examples of ethnic cleansing worse than building some apartments near Campsie station.

Thousands of children across America, getting straight As in Applied Minecraft

The actual Church doesn't think it's worth preserving but council idiots do (although 15 mins ago they didn't.) It's an unused nondescript 1930 church near great transport and amenities 6km from the CBD. theage.com.au/national/victo…

Don’t usually do *this* but, thread: Monday, SCOTUS debates the criminalization of homelessness. That means many folks are sounding off on the topic. I’ve spent 4 yrs covering this for The Washington Post, and need to reality-check assumptions getting thrown around this week (1/x)

Monique Ryan is not wrong that the heritage protections are in need of review, but not because they are inadequate but because they are grossly excessive.

When even a religion can't get a council to allow for redevelopment.... theage.com.au/national/victo…

Your regular reminder that this is literally how heritage policy works.

pushing housing to the urban fringes raises transport costs + travel time, which reduces labour force participation

maybe we should allow more housing to be built closer to jobs & good transport infrastructure?

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

One popular Melbourne NIMBY complaint against housing is that we don't have enough open space. But is that true?

Of course not. Australian cities have a tremendous amount of parkland compared to other global cities

Something that is driving me crazier and crazier is this recurring claim that “we tried building more housing and it didn’t work” in cases where we absolutely did not try building more housing. The UK builds almost no housing!!!

I’ve said it before and I’m going to say it again, North Melbourne station is under-utilised and needs a pedestrian bridge over to Docklands. It’s right friggun there (on left)!!11!

To build 1.2 million homes we need to set and enforce high housing targets for local councils.
YIMBY Melbourne says how this should be done for Melbourne in a very impressive new report.

theguardian.com/australia-news… 1/3

Article in the Guardian: theguardian.com/australia-news…

Excellent. I’m in Boroondara and completely support this. theguardian.com/australia-news…

The latest report from YIMBY Melbourne is another facet of a story that Western suburbs councils have been saying for years.

They've been picking up the slack on housing growth despite not getting anywhere near enough infrastructure funding.
theguardian.com/australia-news…

Nimbys v Yimbys: the affluent inner Melbourne suburbs that aren’t pulling their weight on housing theguardian.com/australia-news… via Guardian Australia

How should we allocate housing targets to local areas of a growing city? Over the past few months I've been working with YIMBY Melbourne on evidence-based housing targets for local government areas in Melbourne....
theguardian.com/australia-news…