If you live long enough you will see everything:
They don’t look like the type of people you might expect to find at your local council meeting. More likely to be renters than retirees, they’re showing up in town halls and city chambers across Sydney, calling for more housing in their neighbourhoods.
Just six months ago, Sydney’s Yes In My Backyard movement was a faint echo of the Californian original, confined to a few mailing lists and disgruntled Twitter users. Now it is mobilising, with a goal of changing the narrative about housing density and development in the city’s suburbs.
Sydney YIMBY will this week hold its launch event at an inner west pub, with speakers including former state and federal politicians, urban planners and a local councillor.
One of those people, former NSW Labor housing minister David Borger, is also forming a separate, as yet unnamed alliance of high-powered interest groups, including big business, unions and universities, to lobby for innovative solutions to the housing shortage.
How sad. Do-gooders turned the useful idiots of billion-dollar developers rather than tackle the actual cause of the crisis: mass immigration.
There are almost certainly developer stooges in the movement as well.
This will achieve precisely nothing other than further depress living standards for all but the developers. We have just had two dwelling construction booms and the shortage has only worsened.
- No boom can keep pace with mass immigration.
- The developers have land banked the available space and will only drip-feed it.
- They own the planners.
- The media will egg on YIMBYism because they are another real estate vested interest.
- Public spaces, services and the environment will all continue to be crush-loaded and degrade.
What kind of mindset mobilises protest in favour of billion-dollar developers and these outcomes?
This is just another example of how Woke has so totally corrupted traditional class policies that the “left” has not only ceased to function but become the vested interest right.
What’s next? Protests demanding more energy cartels?
