Comment on Australia has a $127,000 housing affordability question

AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Gonna need some examples from the text where he’s being sneaky and not just trying to represent reality in a highly politicised (cheers murdoch cunts) conversation. Alan Kohlers not known for being rich in those sentiments.

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  • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    He clearly thinks that being the 859th-least-dense city in the world is bad, or at least an opportunity to be denser, but a lot of people would say it’s just fine. One of the world’s densest cities is Giza, in Egypt, where 4.4 million people squeeze into 98 square kilometres, not much larger than the size of Sydney’s Parramatta, where fewer than 300,000 people live.

    Maybe not so much sneaky as blatant. Going from the density of Australia to Giza is a bullshit comparison.

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    • Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      So you’re in agreement with Kohler,. Least dense city is a metric the NSW Planning and Public Spaces Minister used, Kohler is demonstrating why its a silly metric to use by highlighting the complexities and diversity of housing across the world being boiled down to a single metric like the NSW Minister is trying to do with this ‘Least Dense Housing’ yardstick.

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      • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        So you’re in agreement with Kohler

        I am not. He’s clearly implying that current density is just fine, when the reality is that there is plenty of reason to densify and cherry picking a single extreme example at the other end of the range is disingenuous at best.

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