![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As it stands, a one-off stamp duty of many tens of thousands for a new home is a reason for older Australians not to leave their existing one. We need to encourage people to change their homes as their needs change, which brings us to the evil of: Only when they were built did they discover the huge demand from local families, releasing their houses for others but allowing them to remain close to the friends, clubs, societies, shops and services they had known for most of their lives. Over the past 20 years on Sydney’s leafy North Shore, residents fought tooth-and-nail to prevent four- to six-storey apartment buildings being built along the Pacific Highway. Another way is to move to an apartment with better support services in their suburb. Minimal changes could yield big benefits if planning and tax laws encouraged it. One way could be by subdividing or subletting their house, to share with family members or others. At Schofields and Riverstone, apartment buildings are miles from the centres while low-density housing is close.Īge in place: We need to let older Australians remain in familiar territory. The design for Rouse Hill shopping mall is surrounded by car parks, a six-lane road and a vast cemetery keeping apartments at bay. Sadly, the new metro lines in the north-west corridor of Sydney fail to capitalise on TOD possibilities. Urban designer Rob Adams calculates Melbourne’s population could be doubled using only 7.5 per cent of the city area as TOD, with three and four-storey “shop-top housing” along existing tram lines. Low-rise apartments along existing tram, train or bus lines are called transport-oriented design, or TOD. Both NSW and Victorian governments have programs, but you can drive a monster McMansion through the controls. The “ziggurat” envelope can be very useful in ensuring the built form allows for solar access to neighbours without a loss of privacy. Relax the front setbacks and allow duplexes or triplexes to be built, still with reasonable setbacks. The politics were wrong and the houses not much better. We don’t have to keep them just because they were built when the founding fathers (as they were) hammered out the White Australia Policy. ![]() It could be a timber cottage (old but decrepit) or a Federation house. More houses on the same site: Larger sites in older areas often have smaller houses, but councils may enforce some ludicrous heritage order. Unsustainability on steroids that has bedevilled the Andrews government and will bedevil whoever wins the NSW election. No services, schools, hospitals or public transport, and miles from employment centres. Banning short-term letting could solve the problem of providing housing for everyone, but since that would be politically risible, we will have to build at least 100,000 new homes every year.Ĭontinued expansion of suburbia is the easy go-to answer for both developers and politicians when the issue of new housing supply is raised, but new outer suburbs, such as those proposed south-west of Sydney at Wilton, or in the north-west of Melbourne, are pure developer greed. On paper, we have enough to house everyone, except more than one million homes are second or holiday houses. But is it real? Arithmetically not, as there are more dwellings in Australia (almost 11 million) than households (9.8 million). More housing supply is the developers’ mantra. Boardgamegeek.We revile developers, but the irony is most Australians are developers themselves: 65 per cent of households own a house, 20 per cent two or more properties, and all regard their houses as “an investment in the property market” as much as being homes.Game of the Week Calendar Related Sites & Subreddits The simplest use is to bold game names in your comment and add " /u/r2d8 getinfo" at the end of the post, but this post/sub has other features identified. You'll see people using bold to highlight games, that gives the opportunity to interact with /u/r2d8, a bot that can be used to grab data from BGG on games included in a post. Please see the Rules-page for a full list of the rules. Join our community! Come discuss games like Codenames, Arkham Horror, Terra Mystica, and all your other favorite games! Rules Welcome to /r/boardgames! The #1 reddit source for news, information, and discussion about modern board games. Join us on IRC or via your preferred IRC platform via libera.chat #boardgames. If you're looking to schedule an AMA, set-up a live event post, or collaborate with us in any way, reach out via modmail! New user on the sub? Please make sure you read our rules below and check out our Contribution Guides since we have additional rules regarding specific topics. Flair icons are BoardGameGeek microbadges and are used with permission. ![]()
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