Sydney YIMBY
@sydney.yimby.au
Membership-based organisation for housing abundance. http://sydney.yimby.au
Planning in NSW just got a bit better.
What have they changed? Read here: www.sydney.yimby.au/blog/plannin...
What have they changed? Read here: www.sydney.yimby.au/blog/plannin...
November 12, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Planning in NSW just got a bit better.
What have they changed? Read here: www.sydney.yimby.au/blog/plannin...
What have they changed? Read here: www.sydney.yimby.au/blog/plannin...
Lovely message in our inbox this morning 😊
One of the foundational NIMBY beliefs is that renters aren't worthy of having a say about their communities.
One of the foundational NIMBY beliefs is that renters aren't worthy of having a say about their communities.
October 5, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Lovely message in our inbox this morning 😊
One of the foundational NIMBY beliefs is that renters aren't worthy of having a say about their communities.
One of the foundational NIMBY beliefs is that renters aren't worthy of having a say about their communities.
Final showdown over 30,000 homes in the inner west is happening from 5:30pm on Tuesday. We need you there!
RSVP: thq.fyi/se/YnyOcR0
RSVP: thq.fyi/se/YnyOcR0
September 29, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Final showdown over 30,000 homes in the inner west is happening from 5:30pm on Tuesday. We need you there!
RSVP: thq.fyi/se/YnyOcR0
RSVP: thq.fyi/se/YnyOcR0
Drinks are back this Wednesday 6pm at the Aurora Rooftop Hotel. Come chat urbanism and housing with us.
RSVP: membership.sydney.yimby.au/public/sched...
RSVP: membership.sydney.yimby.au/public/sched...
July 28, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Drinks are back this Wednesday 6pm at the Aurora Rooftop Hotel. Come chat urbanism and housing with us.
RSVP: membership.sydney.yimby.au/public/sched...
RSVP: membership.sydney.yimby.au/public/sched...
Inner West Council wants to build 30,000 homes and we need *your* help to make it happen.
Have your say in less than 2 minutes at yimby.au/innerwest, and show us what you sent in the replies below.
Have your say in less than 2 minutes at yimby.au/innerwest, and show us what you sent in the replies below.
July 1, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Inner West Council wants to build 30,000 homes and we need *your* help to make it happen.
Have your say in less than 2 minutes at yimby.au/innerwest, and show us what you sent in the replies below.
Have your say in less than 2 minutes at yimby.au/innerwest, and show us what you sent in the replies below.
We’ve got two big events on for Activism April, and if you come along to both we’ll give you a free t-shirt!
- Activism training
- Biggest Inner West Council meeting in years to upzone for thousands of units in Marrickville, Ashfield & Dulwich Hill.
RSVP: membership.sydney.yimby.au/public/sched...
- Activism training
- Biggest Inner West Council meeting in years to upzone for thousands of units in Marrickville, Ashfield & Dulwich Hill.
RSVP: membership.sydney.yimby.au/public/sched...
April 10, 2025 at 2:44 AM
We’ve got two big events on for Activism April, and if you come along to both we’ll give you a free t-shirt!
- Activism training
- Biggest Inner West Council meeting in years to upzone for thousands of units in Marrickville, Ashfield & Dulwich Hill.
RSVP: membership.sydney.yimby.au/public/sched...
- Activism training
- Biggest Inner West Council meeting in years to upzone for thousands of units in Marrickville, Ashfield & Dulwich Hill.
RSVP: membership.sydney.yimby.au/public/sched...
This from the latest E61 report is a key reason why we should be making room in our biggest cities instead of chasing decentralisation which makes everyone poorer.
Agglomeration effects are real and can’t be wished away by policy.
e61.in/cities-foste...
Agglomeration effects are real and can’t be wished away by policy.
e61.in/cities-foste...
January 17, 2025 at 1:43 AM
This from the latest E61 report is a key reason why we should be making room in our biggest cities instead of chasing decentralisation which makes everyone poorer.
Agglomeration effects are real and can’t be wished away by policy.
e61.in/cities-foste...
Agglomeration effects are real and can’t be wished away by policy.
e61.in/cities-foste...
This 22 storey development in Crows Nest has now been approved. Thanks to everyone who wrote in favour!
December 23, 2024 at 11:18 PM
This 22 storey development in Crows Nest has now been approved. Thanks to everyone who wrote in favour!
We should interrogate this assumption.
December 17, 2024 at 10:20 PM
We should interrogate this assumption.
65 pages of reports to change the use of a rooftop Barangaroo premises from a licensed restaurant to a bar, for the same opening hours.
Who benefits from this stuff, other than the consultants?
Who benefits from this stuff, other than the consultants?
December 11, 2024 at 7:57 AM
65 pages of reports to change the use of a rooftop Barangaroo premises from a licensed restaurant to a bar, for the same opening hours.
Who benefits from this stuff, other than the consultants?
Who benefits from this stuff, other than the consultants?
We’re going to fall well short of our housing accord target and DPHI is responding by watering down their reforms to the consistency of skim milk.
People are sleeping in their cars and they’re handwringing over whether four storey apartments are “discordant” with $3m terraces adjacent to the CBD.
People are sleeping in their cars and they’re handwringing over whether four storey apartments are “discordant” with $3m terraces adjacent to the CBD.
December 10, 2024 at 10:30 AM
We’re going to fall well short of our housing accord target and DPHI is responding by watering down their reforms to the consistency of skim milk.
People are sleeping in their cars and they’re handwringing over whether four storey apartments are “discordant” with $3m terraces adjacent to the CBD.
People are sleeping in their cars and they’re handwringing over whether four storey apartments are “discordant” with $3m terraces adjacent to the CBD.
North Sydney Council says apartment building should be shorter and less affordable.
December 9, 2024 at 8:51 PM
North Sydney Council says apartment building should be shorter and less affordable.
In a pattern we’re seeing across Sydney’s wealthiest suburbs, Bondi Public’s student numbers are going down so much they’re leaving classrooms empty and teachers are losing their jobs.
Isn’t planning supposed to match homes to infrastructure? Is Waverley Council asleep at the wheel?
Isn’t planning supposed to match homes to infrastructure? Is Waverley Council asleep at the wheel?
December 9, 2024 at 4:49 AM
In a pattern we’re seeing across Sydney’s wealthiest suburbs, Bondi Public’s student numbers are going down so much they’re leaving classrooms empty and teachers are losing their jobs.
Isn’t planning supposed to match homes to infrastructure? Is Waverley Council asleep at the wheel?
Isn’t planning supposed to match homes to infrastructure? Is Waverley Council asleep at the wheel?
arguments against more apartments in Bondi are pretty thin on the ground
December 1, 2024 at 2:27 AM
arguments against more apartments in Bondi are pretty thin on the ground
Sydney Olympic Park 2050 plan is up for consultation, and Parramatta Council are fighting against it because they think rarely-used event parking should take priority over homes for people.
Make a submission by this Friday: www.planningportal.nsw.gov.au/draftplans/e...
Make a submission by this Friday: www.planningportal.nsw.gov.au/draftplans/e...
November 27, 2024 at 6:34 AM
Sydney Olympic Park 2050 plan is up for consultation, and Parramatta Council are fighting against it because they think rarely-used event parking should take priority over homes for people.
Make a submission by this Friday: www.planningportal.nsw.gov.au/draftplans/e...
Make a submission by this Friday: www.planningportal.nsw.gov.au/draftplans/e...
Anonymous grubs are letterboxing against public housing in Newtown, please send a submission here:
www.planningalerts.org.au/applications...
Deadline is TODAY.
www.planningalerts.org.au/applications...
Deadline is TODAY.
November 26, 2024 at 7:51 AM
Anonymous grubs are letterboxing against public housing in Newtown, please send a submission here:
www.planningalerts.org.au/applications...
Deadline is TODAY.
www.planningalerts.org.au/applications...
Deadline is TODAY.
Inner West Council just had their refusal of a Petersham boarding house overturned in court in a 50pg judgment. The thrust of their argument is that 19 people should be denied a home because some internal trusses on a non-heritage property would no longer be visible.
November 25, 2024 at 1:25 AM
Inner West Council just had their refusal of a Petersham boarding house overturned in court in a 50pg judgment. The thrust of their argument is that 19 people should be denied a home because some internal trusses on a non-heritage property would no longer be visible.
Reminder that states with the same interest rates and construction cost challenges have managed to build much more housing than us.
November 22, 2024 at 6:59 AM
Reminder that states with the same interest rates and construction cost challenges have managed to build much more housing than us.
Incredible final sign off from Michael Koziol.
It’s easy to forget that two years ago the conversation on housing was very different. The ability of journos to see through the facile arguments of planners and heritage advocates has been instrumental in that change.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
It’s easy to forget that two years ago the conversation on housing was very different. The ability of journos to see through the facile arguments of planners and heritage advocates has been instrumental in that change.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
November 17, 2024 at 7:43 AM
Incredible final sign off from Michael Koziol.
It’s easy to forget that two years ago the conversation on housing was very different. The ability of journos to see through the facile arguments of planners and heritage advocates has been instrumental in that change.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
It’s easy to forget that two years ago the conversation on housing was very different. The ability of journos to see through the facile arguments of planners and heritage advocates has been instrumental in that change.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
Who had “a cone shaped mound assembled in 1988” on their heritage bingo card?
November 12, 2024 at 8:28 PM
Who had “a cone shaped mound assembled in 1988” on their heritage bingo card?
Big string of advocacy wins for us over the last few weeks!
If you’d like to see us keep smashing it in 2024 please get involved: sydney.yimby.au/membership
If you’d like to see us keep smashing it in 2024 please get involved: sydney.yimby.au/membership
December 9, 2023 at 6:37 AM
Big string of advocacy wins for us over the last few weeks!
If you’d like to see us keep smashing it in 2024 please get involved: sydney.yimby.au/membership
If you’d like to see us keep smashing it in 2024 please get involved: sydney.yimby.au/membership