The housing crisis is driven by local restrictions.

To fix it, we must curb the discretionary power of local councils.

Why block it? Because it was "too affordable."

VCAT just stepped in to approve the project, dismissing these NIMBY complaints as irrelevant planning matters.

Another housing project delayed and taxpayer money burned fighting a losing battle.

Build more homes → stop displacement.

For households within 500 metres of a new housing project, the probability of having to move to a poorer suburb falls by approx. 17%.

This benefit is strongest immediately next to the building and fades as you get further away.

Gentrification ≠ Displacement.

Gentrification and displacement are two separate, but deeply entangled concepts.

There is no simple way to stop gentrification. However, you can help ease displacement.

Their plan is to:
❌ Push apartments onto main roads
❌Keeping cheaper housing options away from quiet streets.
❌ No housing near train stations!

We should build housing where there is demand—not just where it is politically convenient.

4/ If we want more equitable cities, make it legal to build more homes where people want to live.

3/ Areas that were downzoned saw increases in their white population shares (or slower loss of white population) and concentrated wealth compared to non-downzoned areas.

2/ Areas downzoned between 1970 and 1990 gained only 65 units on average between 1990 and 2010.

Whereas non-downzoned tracts gained 470 units — seven times as much.

1/ Downzoning was most frequently implemented in areas with high home values.
The researchers suggest that higher-income residents and elected officials used these policies to maintain the status quo in high-demand neighbourhoods

If we want more equitable cities, make it legal to build more homes where people want to live.

Areas that were downzoned saw increases in their white population shares (or slower loss of white population) and concentrated wealth compared to non-downzoned areas.

Areas downzoned between 1970 and 1990 gained only 65 units on average between 1990 and 2010.

Whereas non-downzoned tracts gained 470 units — seven times as much.

Downzoning was most frequently implemented in areas with high home values.

The researchers suggest that higher-income residents and elected officials used these policies to maintain the status quo in high-demand neighbourhoods