Our cities need more housing that is both affordable and improves how our cities function, while also offering a lifestyle that is actually attractive to Australians.
Hi Riley, I'm enjoying your housing articles. There is some "spice" that's for sure. Here's a quote from a reply I posted on LinkedIn recently --- "The very, very hard truth is that there was a community, city, village, built form before you arrived. And that where you live now was once different from today and it will change again whether you like it or not. To this end, what you value today may not have been valued by previous generations and may not be valued by future generations." --- We urgently need many of the changes you are writing about if we are to have quality cities that are liveable and affordable. In Brisbane in particular, where like you, I also work in planning and development, there is a vital need to change policies around multiple residential, parking and character protections, to name just a few. One specific example is that we need a townhouse or "plexes" development code/s instead of the one multiple dwelling code that attempts to paint all multiple res development in the City with the same brush. It's ridiculous.
As appealing as the free market solution is, in the inner suburbs we also need to restrict the development of huge apartment complexes comprised of tiny apartments. The missing middle needs to develop more dense housing that can accommodate the average Australian family.
Given you are a Queenslander, there was a provision in one of the Queensland Transport Act (I can't recall which one now), that gave them the statutory right to dictate the density around transport nodes. I never saw it used by QT and I wonder if it still exists, but it did live sometime around the late 1990s / early 2000s.
Hi Riley, I'm enjoying your housing articles. There is some "spice" that's for sure. Here's a quote from a reply I posted on LinkedIn recently --- "The very, very hard truth is that there was a community, city, village, built form before you arrived. And that where you live now was once different from today and it will change again whether you like it or not. To this end, what you value today may not have been valued by previous generations and may not be valued by future generations." --- We urgently need many of the changes you are writing about if we are to have quality cities that are liveable and affordable. In Brisbane in particular, where like you, I also work in planning and development, there is a vital need to change policies around multiple residential, parking and character protections, to name just a few. One specific example is that we need a townhouse or "plexes" development code/s instead of the one multiple dwelling code that attempts to paint all multiple res development in the City with the same brush. It's ridiculous.
As appealing as the free market solution is, in the inner suburbs we also need to restrict the development of huge apartment complexes comprised of tiny apartments. The missing middle needs to develop more dense housing that can accommodate the average Australian family.
Good stuff. I like the name The Missing Middle - makes it sound like we need it!
But what happened to the heroic defender of Albany Creek?
Given you are a Queenslander, there was a provision in one of the Queensland Transport Act (I can't recall which one now), that gave them the statutory right to dictate the density around transport nodes. I never saw it used by QT and I wonder if it still exists, but it did live sometime around the late 1990s / early 2000s.