It seems we have a new culprit on whom to blame Australia’s housing shortage – Nimbys.
Sue has collated a raft of newspaper articles here, here and here, all of which state or imply that the fault for not enough homes being built lies with local authorities who cave into their constituents’ demands not to have high-rise buildings in their burbs.
Look, there are many factors that have led to the current lack of housing and the subsequent soaring rents in Australia, but there is no one, single contributing issue.
That said, one of them doubtless is having too many residents saying Not In My Back Yard to development proposals
Fortunately, we have a solution that.., well, it won’t keep Nimbys happy – nothing will do that – but it might make them less unhappy than they otherwise would be.
And we follow-up a story about yet another supposed crackdown on dodgy real estate agents, extending that into a minor rant about Fair Trading’s pee-weak responses to complaints about strata managers. That’s all in this week’s Flat Chat Wrap.
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Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai.
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