1. 5 February 2010

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    nickdouglas

    nickdouglas: Just some floor space stats The absurdly large size of new Australian houses is one of the key contributors to the housing affordability crisis. Australia, despite being huge, is the most urbanised population in the world. Our governments continue to release more and more land for new suburbs, and we allow houses to be built on that land that accommodate hardly anybody. Demand is out-stripping supply and creating hollowed-out suburbs, where the very workers who enable a suburb to exist (bakers, nurses, police, fire-women, etc) cannot afford to live near the area they service. Australians need to start getting used to higher density living, and governments need to start creating incentives for developers to build higher-density dwellings.

    nickdouglas:

    Just some floor space stats

    The absurdly large size of new Australian houses is one of the key contributors to the housing affordability crisis. Australia, despite being huge, is the most urbanised population in the world. Our governments continue to release more and more land for new suburbs, and we allow houses to be built on that land that accommodate hardly anybody.

    Demand is out-stripping supply and creating hollowed-out suburbs, where the very workers who enable a suburb to exist (bakers, nurses, police, fire-women, etc) cannot afford to live near the area they service.

    Australians need to start getting used to higher density living, and governments need to start creating incentives for developers to build higher-density dwellings.