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We’ve made affordable housing illegal : Comments

By Natalie Rayment, published 20/9/2022

Caravan parks and tent cities are overflowing with people who have been left behind by a lack of affordable housing to rent or buy.

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A Ho hum from the guilt ridden!

Dan
Posted by diver dan, Tuesday, 20 September 2022 8:45:38 AM
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A town planner with an axe to grind.
Posted by ttbn, Tuesday, 20 September 2022 8:53:41 AM
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Meanwhile, the eight families turfed out with their kids and tents from the grounds of Lunia public school, can go root their boot!

Do we really need a world run by the educated for the educated? And herein lies the real problem with housing.

It’s way too late to fix it up with town planners and Local Councils.

I think those dispossessed of the Western Suburbs, are currently working out the finer details of life generally, on the streets with guns, gangs and crime…and families living among it in tents built very temporarily in local parks all over town.

Clowns like this author need to have their ears hauled closer to ground “zero opportunity”!

Dan.
Posted by diver dan, Tuesday, 20 September 2022 9:42:52 AM
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A mummy sardine and her baby sardine were swimming past the Gold Coast when th3 baby poked her head out of the water and said, look mum, tinned people.

This writer seems to think we have run out of space and need to cram more and more into smaller and smaller lot sizes!? When lots are already postage stamp size. And residents have little or no privacy as it is for neighbourhood busy bodies!

What we need is a new deal and rapid rail to make the commute from the rural to our cities a non-issue! And rapid rail could come with free wi-fi to make the commute productive. Rapid rail would allow factories and enterprise to relocate to cheaper real estate out in the boondocks! And where the jobs go, so do the people!

Caravans and tent cities were the hallmark of the Great Depression.

And we plan, stupidly to increase migration! When we can't even house those already here! And those already here cannot afford the energy bill (12-dollar lettuces etc.) let alone rising mortgage payments!

Affordable housing is not illegal! It simply isn't available due exclusively to green influenced (I'm all right Jack) government policy! TBC.
Alan B.
Posted by Alan B., Tuesday, 20 September 2022 10:30:41 AM
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Affordable housing in not illegal, just not available!

If we would make housing once again affordable, we need to make land available via increased rezoning and make building materials not getting dearer by the day.

It all starts with affordable energy for the steel/aluminum electric arc furnaces/smelters/mills and steel house frames, the heat for the brick clines, the glass furnaces/windows, etc.

And that's not battery backed renewables or the world's most expensive coal and price gouged energy. It's MSR thorium and nuclear power, microgrids and used to make rapid rail actually affordable and available 24/7!

What we have now is the consequence of mad hatter policy and urban planning where the dollar came first for both developer and conflicted city planners who to date have been unable to think outside the box. Prioritized profits and tax revenue in cart before horse thinking.

Time and again we see towns burnt or washed away. Perhaps if that were the case for Sydney and Melbourne. We'd get some sanity into forward planning.

Think we were once the third wealthiest (post-war) nation on the planet and a creditor one at that. And at that time a single wage paid for the quarter acre block with the three-bedroom cottage. And tents and caravans used exclusively for the annual affordable holiday. When we and the nation all lived within our means and not a hugely over leveraged national credit card and record exponentially expanding domestic debt!

Simply put economic growth starts with truly affordable energy as does affordable housing, not squeezing more and more, non-compatible migrants in!

We need to reinstall sanity and focus on volume rather than ever increasing unaffordable margins. Unaffordable margins which need planned scarcity to make them work. Be it profit, affordable housing or tax revenue.

And we need politicians able to continence and create bold vision and that which comes from that. Not more of the same old same old of incompetent, career, poly waffling, scarcity thinking, pollies!
Alan B.
Posted by Alan B., Tuesday, 20 September 2022 11:16:09 AM
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Congratulations to the author on what is probably the shortest OLO article - only 433 words!

With a little editing effort, this could be condensed into 350 words and classified as a "general discussion" whereby we are allowed to comment more times per day... though there is not really much to say about this topic... just allow people to keep the expensive building corporations out by building whatever they like with their own hands, possibly starting small and expanding their homes gradually over the years, so long as they can do so without disturbing the neighbours with noise, dust and the like.
Posted by Yuyutsu, Tuesday, 20 September 2022 12:40:21 PM
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