Here is what the YIMBY movement is really about. Property parasites feeding on Australian living standards. Michael Koziol, Sydney editor of The Sydney Morning Herald, writes:
“The new boss of the state’s planning department, Kiersten Fishburn, lives in a 49-square-metre terrace with two children. As she told an industry lunch on Thursday: “Just imagine what every evening in my house is like.”
Fishburn puts her money where her mouth is on higher-density housing. “I’m proud to live in a dense area and I think it’s great for people,” she said. “Density is actually a social good, as well as environmental. But it has always been a challenging sell in the Australian context.”
…Needlessly demonising high-density as that might be, when it comes to housing, variety is not just the spice of life, it’s crucial. And the government is poised to act, having flagged reforms to make subdivisions and semis easier, even if it means mowing down local controls.
Fishburn, the planning secretary, is aware of the need to give density a makeover. “We need to make sure we get the amenity piece right, so density becomes not just tolerable, it becomes desirable,” she told the lunchtime crowd on Thursday.
“If we don’t get the amenity piece right, we will not have a housing crisis, because people will not choose to live here anymore.””
Yes, they will. They will keep coming until our urban landscape is as crowded, ill-serviced, filthy, hot and bleak as it is in New Dehli. Why wouldn’t they do so as long it is better?
Thid is YIMBY propaganda. An excuse to lower the living standards of your children because it makes Nine money via Domain and gives Koziol a job.
That’s what this is really about. Not some feel-good notion of open borders, friendly engagement with the world, not vibrancy, globalisation, not world peace or fighting climate change, nor great cuisine or diversity.
It most certainly is not about fixing the housing crisis, which it will not do.
This is about money. Money for Koziol and Domain’s developer mates. Taken from you and most other Australians as living standards degrade. Crush-loaded services, lower wages and the housing permacrisis ruthlessly repackaged as in your children’s interests.
