Nimby Name Calling: A Developer Distraction by Andrew Chuter As the housing affordability crisis goes from bad to worse, fingers of blame are being pointed in all the wrong directions. The latest target are "nimbys" - so called "not in my back yard" resident activists accused of blocking new housing being built in their neighbourhoods. Ignored by economist Chris Richardson, NSW Premier Chris Minns, Real Estate Institute New South Wales and former Reserve Bank economist Tony Richards, is the $20 billion in annual investor tax concessions which increasingly turn housing into a profitable financial instrument, rather than recognise it as a ...

Friends of Erskineville recently wrote to Ron Hoenig, the Minister for Local Government, about the undemocratic City of Sydney voting rules that give businesses double votes. The issue was raised recently in parliament and appeared on the ABC TV news: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko5mCFfAXkE FoE's view is that nobody should be able to vote more than once or in multiple local government areas. Please sign our change.org petition here: https://www.change.org/p/one-vote-one-value. 7/6/2023 Dear Minister Hoenig, We write to you in your capacity as Minister for Local Government. We welcome your recent comments (1) in parliam...