@ebenleaf.bsky.social
That is such a relatable feeling.
12.02.2025 02:30 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
A perfectly reasonable response to someone praising a government housing reform.
07.02.2025 23:48 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0You are a gym bro now, it's official. Welcome.
03.02.2025 21:13 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Notice from ACT Heritage Council regarding Early Kingston Shops extension of provisional registration
The Heritage Council is intending to extend the provisional registration of the Early Kingston Shops before making a final decision, due to public consultation ~complications~.
Hoping this means they're considering our points about the serious negative impacts this listing will have on Kingston!
Then don't buy one, problem solved.
26.01.2025 08:43 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Cover inner canberra suburbs with these.
26.01.2025 06:33 β π 7 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0
Build this on every inner city street.
25.01.2025 00:54 β π 47 π 6 π¬ 1 π 4I'm working on this for the upcoming ACT Legislative Assembly inquiry into their 2024 election with @francismarkham.work
Since self-government, Canberra has had an MLA for every 10,500 voters
By 2031, there'll only be one for every 15,000
To get back to the average, ACT will need to have 35 MLAs
Letter to the Canberra Times about light rail, basically the same as the rest of this thread.
My letter in yesterdayβs Canberra Times.
For the entirety of my almost 15 years living in Canberra, light rail has been a dominant issue in ACT politics, being central in every election from 2012 to 2024. But the debate has been going on for much longer than that.
No setbacks, no yards, close to 100% lot coverage. And a street full of trees.
11.12.2024 03:34 β π 23 π 4 π¬ 3 π 0If you are going to attempt a coup, impeachment should be the minimum you get.
08.12.2024 21:53 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Thereβs a deep tension between the value Australians place on freedom and the desire of some policymakers to restrict urban growth. Governments can control housing, but they canβt control people. The only way we can stop people moving to cities is to make them unaffordable.
04.12.2024 07:52 β π 6 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0Not great for Australia
30.11.2024 21:56 β π 5 π 4 π¬ 1 π 0Some commentators seem to think that because βbuild more homesβ has become a rallying cry for a subset of policymakers, this is now the consensus on housing in Australia. Anyone engaged with local governance for more than 2s knows this is farcical. A brief example from the ACTβ¦
28.11.2024 11:36 β π 14 π 5 π¬ 1 π 1
Over the past year, the ACT has built more homes per person than any state bar Victoria. The result? Rental affordability has *improved*. Thereβs a long way to go, but itβs clear that building more homes is the key to making Canberra more affordable for all.
24.11.2024 04:31 β π 32 π 10 π¬ 0 π 1
In this working paper that was published today, Matthew Maltman and I review some of the economic evidence on the effects of β¨upzoningβ¨in Auckland in 2016.
tldr: We find remarkably robust evidence that upzoning led to more housing and lower rents in Auckland. Wow!
www.motu.nz/our-research...
