The Housing Crisis: A Future of Slums By James Reed
The Australian housing crisis, a product largely of mass immigration, as well as problems in getting materials for construction as a legacy of the Covid madness, is producing a new round of tyranny. The ideal of having a home on a quarter acre block for the ordinary Aussie has gone, and now in the world where a cost-of-living crisis is business as usual, having a home to own at all, may soon be put in the same realm as winning the lotto.
Thus, one move in Victoria has been to go the way of modern slums, tiny apartments which are less than 25 square metres, with no private parking spaces. This will be just a place to sleep, and maybe keep a few clothes and a small bar fridge. It will be just like Hong Kong, and it is certainly no accident that the replacement ethnicities for Australia will be used to living like this, and will not complain, not that white Australians ever protested about anything in significant numbers, unlike say the French, and even at present, the German farmers.
If this trend continues, the future might be out of sci fi, with people sleeping in pod-like structures, human shoe boxes, as occurs to some degree in Tokyo now. Our elites would be over-joyed at this.
“The future of affordable housing in Melbourne might look like this: apartments less than 25 square metres in size, common spaces instead of private balconies and no car parking.
A proposed residential development in Brunswick is aiming to deliver smaller-scale living, with apartment sizes more in line with what’s found in densely populated metropolises like New York or Hong Kong.
The development has split opinions on Merri-bek City Council. Supporters argue it will help alleviate the housing crisis, while sceptics worry about the standards it sets for the future.
The developers behind the proposed Cysur building on Albert Street in Brunswick were granted a planning permit in the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal last month, overturning a council decision to block approval.
A permit was refused at a meeting in February, when Merri-bek councillors raised concerns about the amenity of the apartments. Studios were listed at 22.5 square metres – roughly the size of the living room in a detached house.
“I don’t think the solution to the housing crisis is to just build smaller housing, that’s a way to achieve glorified slums,” said councillor James Conlan, a Green turned independent who voted against the plans.
“At the end of the day, humans need to live in a home of a certain size. Without minimum apartment sizes, if we leave it to the market it will be a race to the bottom. We’re heading towards New York-style shoe boxes.”
The Cysur development is being promoted as a “modest” co-housing prototype, which aims to deliver affordable housing on a small piece of land close to Sydney Road.”
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