Jonathan O'Brien @jonobri
Writer, software dev, lead organiser @yimbymelbourne // Build more homes where people want to live // [email protected] // [email protected] linktr.ee/jonobri Melbourne, Victoria Joined July 2013-
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The actual Church doesn't think it's worth preserving but council idiots do (although 15 mins ago they didn't.) It's an unused nondescript 1930 church near great transport and amenities 6km from the CBD. theage.com.au/national/victo…
Don’t usually do *this* but, thread: Monday, SCOTUS debates the criminalization of homelessness. That means many folks are sounding off on the topic. I’ve spent 4 yrs covering this for @washingtonpost, and need to reality-check assumptions getting thrown around this week (1/x)
Monique Ryan is not wrong that the heritage protections are in need of review, but not because they are inadequate but because they are grossly excessive.
Monique Ryan is not wrong that the heritage protections are in need of review, but not because they are inadequate but because they are grossly excessive.
When even a religion can't get a council to allow for redevelopment.... theage.com.au/national/victo…
Your regular reminder that this is literally how heritage policy works.
Your regular reminder that this is literally how heritage policy works. https://t.co/pSnSpr4hsT
pushing housing to the urban fringes raises transport costs + travel time, which reduces labour force participation maybe we should allow more housing to be built closer to jobs & good transport infrastructure? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…
One popular Melbourne NIMBY complaint against housing is that we don't have enough open space. But is that true? Of course not. Australian cities have a tremendous amount of parkland compared to other global cities
Something that is driving me crazier and crazier is this recurring claim that “we tried building more housing and it didn’t work” in cases where we absolutely did not try building more housing. The UK builds almost no housing!!!
I’ve said it before and I’m going to say it again, North Melbourne station is under-utilised and needs a pedestrian bridge over to Docklands. It’s right friggun there (on left)!!11!
To build 1.2 million homes we need to set and enforce high housing targets for local councils. @yimbymelbourne says how this should be done for Melbourne in a very impressive new report. theguardian.com/australia-news… 1/3
Article in the Guardian: theguardian.com/australia-news…
Excellent. I’m in Boroondara and completely support this. theguardian.com/australia-news…
The latest report from @yimbymelbourne is another facet of a story that Western suburbs councils have been saying for years. They've been picking up the slack on housing growth despite not getting anywhere near enough infrastructure funding. theguardian.com/australia-news…
Nimbys v Yimbys: the affluent inner Melbourne suburbs that aren’t pulling their weight on housing theguardian.com/australia-news… via @GuardianAus
How should we allocate housing targets to local areas of a growing city? Over the past few months I've been working with YIMBY Melbourne on evidence-based housing targets for local government areas in Melbourne.... theguardian.com/australia-news…
That's right!
Some people, like Cameron Murray and Tim Helm, argue that planning regulations, e.g. zoning, don't change the *quantity* of housing supplied, just the *location*. They are wrong. Why? Well, locations are not perfect substitutes. This is extremely important and ...
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@yimbymelbourne @Boroondara In some ways this is actually good. Councils should bear their costs of heritage policies.
Spending the weekend at the beach talking with my friends and working on a method to estimate the demand for housing that is simple enough to inform government policy. It was the best of times ✅
THIS is how we get back to building! More than 100 high school kids are competing in a masonry competition in North Carolina and are crushing it.
Last time I posted a similar graphic I had 100s of people screaming at me that I wanted to confiscate their 12,000sq ft homes and force them to live in a 300sq ft apartment. Totally rational reaction lol
Right on a tram line to the city, adjacent to a train line, 200m to a High School and a Primary School. Parks and shops etc nearby. Terrible site for development.
The actual Church doesn't think it's worth preserving but council idiots do (although 15 mins ago they didn't.) It's an unused nondescript 1930 church near great transport and amenities 6km from the CBD. theage.com.au/national/victo…
The big secret of university financing is that the ideal forms of income-contingent loans, graduate tax and free university all converge on the same system
Interesting to watch how Vancouver continues to restrict housing as much as possible. 0.5 FSR 6-plexes on centrally located land is stupendously wasteful land use designed to be maximally exclusionary while (barely) conforming to provincial SSMUH mandates.
An overview of the draft changes in RT-7, RT-9, and First Shaughnessy District
@vb_jens @TomDavidoff Planners: “if we can’t capture the land lift, we’ll downzone until there’s no land lift”
@DavidMcilvn @jonobri What we do with heritage property would be considered madness if we applied it to any other asset class. And the fact is that the public is much more interested in vintage cars than vintage houses.
@DavidMcilvn @jonobri Imagine you're driving a 20 year old car, and a heritage consultant suddenly appears and says that your car has "character" so no, you can't give it to the wreckers, you must preserve it in perpetuity and not trade it in for a new, more fuel efficient car.
me too tbh x.com/turbogrog/stat…
Indeed. If Will Stancil had a spine, he would adopt brave positions like "Biden should simply activate the brain implant that makes Bibi do his bidding" and "all new housing should be affordable, but also nobody's taxes should go up"
“My position on the war in Gaza is its horrible and I want it to end as soon as possible” is not actually a position anymore than saying your position on housing is “it’s good and there should be more of it”
@DavidNage Fucking idiot, free speech for society doesn't mean allowing trolls on YOUR PRIVATE feed. Fucking idiot you don't get the private-public difference.
@jonobri @RiverviewAvenue @ItsDoonby @pussyisalive But in principle I want the computer / monitor divide for TVs too, just a nice big dumb display that I can connect whatever I want to it.
@jonobri @RiverviewAvenue @ItsDoonby @pussyisalive I personally bought a Samsung Frame today because I don't want to have a TV but I have a child and so this way I can minimise the appearance of having a TV most of the time.
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Such an honour to present @MelbFreeUni - so much respect for this team and the fantastic program of events they put on. Come and chat ethics of care in social housing with me on 9/5 ⬇️
**New Session Alert** Join us on Thursday 9th May at 6:30pm at the Alderman in Brunswick East to hear @AbigailLLew discussing 'Care, Commerce, and Conflict: Sustaining Tenancies in Social Housing'. Poster details in thread! 1/8
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