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Melissa Neighbour

@missneighbour

Urban Planner | Speaker | Community Champion | SolarPunk | I love igniting positive change!

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Great news. NSW sets high housing targets for local councils. Targets for Greater Sydney represent 2.7% annual growth in the stock – faster than projected demand and near previous construction peaks. So the housing shortage will decline at an ambitious but feasible pace. 1/6

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Enough is enough! The annual Demographia study ranked Sydney the second most #unaffordable city to buy a home in the world – the 15th time in 16 years the Harbour City has been ranked in the global top 3. Say YIMBY! realestate.com.au/news/three-aus…

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Thanks to Dr Sophie Scamps MP for the opportunity to share our Sydney YIMBY federal policy idea to help build more houses in our great city!!! #abundanthousing and #communityengagement for realz! Nice work again newDemocracy

Thanks to <a href="/SophieScamps/">Dr Sophie Scamps MP</a> for the opportunity to share our <a href="/SydneyYIMBY/">Sydney YIMBY</a> federal policy idea to help build more houses in our great city!!! #abundanthousing and #communityengagement for realz! Nice work again <a href="/newdemocracyAUS/">newDemocracy</a>
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#Singapore has just been added to an ELITE list.... taking the world's number of Blue Zones from 4 to 5. Even more special is that of the 5, it is the only URBAN Blue Zone #healthycities #urbanplanning #urbandesign Blue Zones tinyurl.com/yuy3dpx9

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‘Must Maintain existing character’ is a backwards planning policy ! Would love to see it removed as Britain just has! We need progressive policy that provides for the housing needs of today and enables character of communities to evolve! #townplanning #policy

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On the weekend I chatted to Tim Gilbert on Sky News Australia about housing in NSW and Sydney YIMBY campaign for more housing on government land > SIGN the petition here tinyurl.com/3f2efme2 Watch the Sky News interview here tinyurl.com/ub9ud87f

On the weekend I chatted to Tim Gilbert on <a href="/SkyNewsAust/">Sky News Australia</a> about housing in NSW and <a href="/SydneyYIMBY/">Sydney YIMBY</a> campaign for more housing on government land &gt; SIGN the petition here tinyurl.com/3f2efme2
Watch the Sky News interview here tinyurl.com/ub9ud87f
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The ‘fake green fairytale’ was busted for me tonight by Prof Jem Bendell 🌍☸️ … but I’m ok with that…. In fact I believe looking at the cold hard truth will make a ‘kinder, fairer and gentler’ collapse all the more possible #ClimateCrisis #polycrisis #collapseandrenewal #liberation

The ‘fake green fairytale’ was busted for me tonight by <a href="/jembendell/">Prof Jem Bendell 🌍☸️</a>  … but I’m ok with that…. In fact I believe looking at the cold hard truth will make a ‘kinder, fairer and gentler’ collapse all the more possible #ClimateCrisis #polycrisis #collapseandrenewal #liberation
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The UDIA National housing pipeline forecast - hmmmmm…… that’s a big gap between the government’s target!!! #housingcrisis #housingtargets #housingsupply

The <a href="/UDIANational/">UDIA National</a> housing pipeline forecast - hmmmmm…… that’s a big gap between the government’s target!!! #housingcrisis #housingtargets #housingsupply
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The redevelopment of this site absolutely should be maximised for more Housing - it’s got a bus lane direct to the CBD, which is a 5 min trip! Affordable and market housing - we need all of it and a lot of it - as the research shows - both create overall affordability! Let’s go!

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"Inclusionary zoning" is like making doctors and nurses pay for Medicare or making professors pay for extra university places. To get more of something, don't tax the people who provide it. 2/3

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Heritage controls in NSW? They are completely out of control! Town planning is about making decisions that balance social, environmental and economic factors -yet the past is given wildly more weight -at the expense of the needs of today! lnkd.in/gGsxUtP7

Heritage controls in NSW? They are completely out of control!

Town planning is about making decisions that balance social, environmental and economic factors -yet the past is given wildly more weight -at the expense of the needs of today! 

 lnkd.in/gGsxUtP7
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Supply denialism is one of the biggest obstacles to better housing policy. Opponents of new housing don't realise the harm they do. But the growing weight of evidence will eventually overcome.

Supply denialism is one of the biggest obstacles to better housing policy.
Opponents of new housing don't realise the harm they do.
But the growing weight of evidence will eventually overcome.
Melissa Neighbour (@missneighbour) 's Twitter Profile Photo

You can’t say ‘save the koalas’ with one hand and wave off every apartment block with the other. We have urban sprawl because we say no to density in the right places. Say yes. Submission guide will be on Sydney YIMBY website. #urbanplanning #infilldevelopment #conservation

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No surprises here!! NSW, on average takes longer to assess DAs than every other state. We need this planning system reform more than ever! #pia #streamlininghousingassessment

No surprises here!! NSW, on average takes longer to assess DAs than every other state. We need this planning system reform more than ever! 
#pia #streamlininghousingassessment
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Great to see the federal housing minister highlighting regulation and planning laws as critical blocks to our housing supply #housingcrisis #planning #reform Clare O'Neil MP

Great to see the federal housing minister highlighting regulation and planning laws as critical blocks to our housing supply #housingcrisis #planning #reform <a href="/ClareONeilMP/">Clare O'Neil MP</a>
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Last night the ABC aired the Compass episode which takes a deep dive into the people behind Sydney YIMBY and the reasons why we are fighting so hard for more housing #socialjustice #intergenerationalinequity #housingcrisis #volunteers #giveadamn #homelessness #fairercities