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NSW planning changes to boost housing take effect next month but communities are divided (www.abc.net.au)
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Predictable NIMBY opposition, but this is a needed change to boost density in NSW cities resulting in increased housing affordability and allowing more people to live without being tethered to a car.

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[–] Affidavit@aussie.zone 3 points 8 months ago

You argue my statement to be untrue then provide your unrealistic utopian vision of ~~cramming~~ high density urban living as if it has any reflection in our current reality. Developers are not building your utopia, they are doing everything they can to maximise their profit. I've lived in enough expensive high density shitty apartments with no air conditioning and no maintenance to take everything an 'anti-NIMBY' has to say with a shaker of salt.

Increasing density is not necessary to resolve the housing crisis. Halting and properly managing population increase is the solution. Governments not sabotaging public transport is the solution. Social housing as opposed to housing-for-profit is the solution.