As we work towards reducing the gender pay gap in Australia, we are far from creating equal opportunities for women, as we expand the gap through other means. Celebrating Women…
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From today, our housing choices will be limited in Brisbane. Today is the start of Exclusionary Zoning in Brisbane. What does that mean? It means that from today, the majority of…
YIMBY Queensland has lodged a submission to Brisbane City Council’s draft Sandgate district neighbourhood plan. The submission includes reasons for support, areas for improvement and recommendations to achieve best practice…
While global cities are responding to changing lifestyles, affordability and environmental challenges by adapting their zoning and housing policies, we seem to be moving in the opposite direction. We are…
YIMBY Qld congratulate the Queensland Government for taking the initiative to prepare and undertake stakeholder consultation about the Model Code for Neighbourhood Design, under the Creating Healthy and Active Communities…
YIMBY Qld have lodged a submission with Brisbane City Council requesting not to proceed with the proposed Major Amendment Package H to the Brisbane City Plan to restrict townhouses and…
Since when, in Australia is living at home a luxury available to just a few? By home, we mean a place you call your home. For some of us, it’s…
If you SUPPORT housing AFFORDABILITY, CHOICE and DIVERSITY, we urge you to OBJECT to the ban on townhouses in low density residential areas of Brisbane, as proposed in Major Amendment…
YIMBY Qld CEO Natalie Rayment joined Steve Austin on ABC Drive to discuss all things parking, in particular Brisbane City Council’s current proposal to amend City Plan to increase car…
If you SUPPORT urban renewal and the revitalisation of under-utilised infill land around an inner suburbs railway station (Albion station), HATE sitting in traffic, WANT improved green space, connectivity and…
Presentations
“Can I be your neighbour?”
By Natalie Rayment It’s the century of the city, a decade of densification in an urban millennium. In the space of a New York Minute, cities are growing up fast. …
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By Natalie Rayment A “tragic street lamp”, “ungainly skeleton” and “a hole-riddled suppository”. This is how protesters once described the proposed Eiffel Tower in the 1880s. There was even a…
By Natalie Rayment You’ve lived in this suburb for most of your adult life. Your kids grew up here and your friends are close by. But, the house has become…
What I Learned from Christchurch
By Jack Briant This post is the first in our “What I Learned from…” travel series based on the experiences of built environment professionals and city enthusiasts as they discover…