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Workers flee Sydney's unaffordable housing : Comments

By Jeremy Gilling, John Muscat and Rolly Smallacombe, published 26/2/2007

Housing affordability is on the agenda but we need to do more than tinker around the edges of the problem.

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Actually, Billie, now that the Gold Coast and Sydney are switching to desalinated water, there is no reason why a large metropolis couldn't be located in the Nullabor, or at Lake Eyre.

Come to think of it, why isn't Adelaide investing in desalination instead of always trying to cover their continual growth by forcing farmers out of business?
Posted by Perseus, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 11:34:04 PM
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No one has ever been able to adequately explain to me how freeing up land on Sydney's fringes will significantly effect house prices within 20km of the city, which is where most people want to live.

Increasing the supply of land 40km west does little or nothing to the demand and supply equation in Marrickville, for example.

There is no economic reason why house prices in Sydney have to be affordable for the average wage earner. London and New York show house prices can remain obscenely high. As long as there are enough rich people to buy the supply of houses in the inner suburbs (and there are), house prices can stay "too high". It's simply supply and demand.

The real problem is our population in NSW is too centralised. No one wants to live in Mudgee because the jobs, the lifestyle, are in Sydney. If we can shift jobs out there and expand existing regional centres like Newcastle and improve transport links, Sydney won't seem like the only place it's possible to raise a family.
Posted by grn, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 12:03:20 PM
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Idiot.
We Can't "Free up" coastal land, or land with ocean views, since this is already gone.
I assume you mean "freeing up" the not-so-great land, the land reserved for conservation, or the land set-aside for the future.

The population is growing unsustainably, one minor affect is land price increase, other more important affects are; extinction, fisheries collapse, water crisis and pollution.

Guess what, Your article is stupid.
Your opinions are invalid, irrational and dangerous to my country.

"Release" more land, i.e. bulldoze it for mc mansions.

And what happens when all that land has been "Freed up" (destroyed) what benefit to the economy, or the unemployment rate ?

Zero.

You must be a blubbering retard, I am ashamed and insulted to share my country with such a worthless fool, How did you learn to write?, let alone express your muddle-brained ideas on an internet forum.
Posted by moploki, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 2:36:44 PM
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People who come together to form Intentional Communities will find that a well designed house that is energy efficient and aesthetically pleasing, well within their means. This is made possible through grants and incentives together with economies with materials and construction.
The present-day concern about “Housing Affordability” is predicated on a 3br brick- veneer house on a quarter-acre block, on the outer edge of the suburban sprawl; with all that implies. Taking on a heavy mortgage, and its servicing, imposes a life of petit-bourgeois semi-poverty. This is not an attractive proposition for the upcoming generation. It doesn’t have to be like that.

Communications and technology in the twenty-first century offer choices other than those hangovers from the Industrial Age. Intentional communities are putting Life back into the country. It is within this context that cooperating communities can provide houses that are economical, energy-efficient and aesthetically pleasing;(together with room for a pony) at a fraction of the cost of a house in the suburbs
Posted by gulliver, Thursday, 1 March 2007 10:19:50 AM
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How many people on here believe that expensive housing is the only reason for people fleeing Sydney?

Both my wife and I have spoken to people where we live and, to many on the internet who also moved out of Sydney. Expensive housing was part of it however, a major element that kept arising was that of 'white flight'.

White flight being; white Australian's leaving Sydney due to the fast increasing ethnic crime rates, especially crimes against the white Australian. As gutless politicians refuse to pull ethnic inline with local laws, the white Aussie is being criminally vilified.

To fix housing problems, we must curtail the immigration intake. Really, why must we pull in over 100,000 immigrants per year when we have young families ending up on the street for limited housing and, a lack of water for those already here?
Posted by Spider, Friday, 2 March 2007 11:29:45 AM
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Moploki, your post reads like you haven't had a bowel movement for three weeks. Get some roughage and then get some manners.

Grn, if there is a regional seat of government, or three, outside of NewSydGong then a whole host of head office jobs will follow. And only then will the drift of country kids to the metropolis be reversed and people move from the city to good career prospects in the regions.

The only successful decentralisation efforts in Australia have involved self governance. That is, Canberra and Darwin.

And it really is time to ask why it is OK for 200,000 Northern Territorians and 330,000 Canberrans to have self government but it is not OK for 480,000 in the Riverina (700,000 with Sth Coast), 400,000 in New England and 550,000 in NSW North Coast.

And compared to the ongoing cost of metropolitan congestion, any duplication of services in regional governments is chicken feed.
Posted by Perseus, Sunday, 4 March 2007 10:30:57 PM
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