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Cutting the controversy from the density debate

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Cutting the controversy from the density debate

The changing role of planning

Concern over plan for six-storey community housing in Prahran, with just five car parks

The apartment experiment

The ‘starfish’ city: How Melbourne’s shape is pushing young workers out

Treasury recruits prominent YIMBY economist to lead housing team

Inner-city mega-council floated as mayors face financial cliff

Where will Victoria’s new homes be built? Competing Liberal and Labor visions are as much about politics as planning

Victorian opposition to expand Melbourne's CBD, fast-track growth area homes under housing plan

The 20-storey divide: Melbourne’s high-density push stalled by numbers that don’t stack up

Homeowners fight developer over village

Draft maps indicate heights and setbacks for 23 of Victoria’s Activity Centres

'Game of Monopoly': wiggle room on high-rise maps

High-rise v High Street: The battle for the soul of Thornbury

Melbourne is in the middle of a housing revolution – have the yimbys already won?

Thornbury residents devise their own housing plan as alternative to activity centre

YIMBY is a misnomer. They haven't got backyards

The real reasons property prices look set to climb again in 2026

Who cares if Jess Wilson is a millennial? What’s more important is if she’s a NIMBY

3AW - Should we be building 3-storeys across Melbourne?

Neighbours lose appeal rights in new laws to slash planning approval times

Victorian premier vows to scrap ‘old-fashioned Nimby’ planning laws, fast-track homes and curb rights to object

Mid-rise developments could loom over suburbs, secret documents reveal

Is there too much heritage?

NIMBYs, YIMBYs — and BIMBYs: The new group in Australia's housing stoush

New planning rules reach for the sky

A 7-degree angle stopped this Elwood home extension, and exposed a heritage fight

Brighton locals vow to protect their seaside suburb from ‘Gold Coast high-rises’

‘Big decision to be made’: Piedimonte’s plan dashed by council, sale on the cards

Councils ‘blindsided’ as new high-rise hubs are unveiled

How the Woollahra development could redraw politics in Sydney’s east

Victorian Liberal members to push for regulated cannabis market at state council

Call for young Victorians to be paid for their two cents on the state’s future

Housing targets falling short in nearly all Victorian council areas

The rules you must follow when building a home – and how much extra it costs

Locals fought for years to block development in South Melbourne. It may be harder to do so again

They’re coming to the West but most people haven’t even heard of them

What’s slowing down housing development?

Is private office space a public good? SRL density plan suggests so

The rise of the YIMBY movement

The housing crisis is being managed by the wrong people

The fight over your backyard: Why NIMBY has become a ‘dirty word’

us tech billionaires fund australian yimby battle

Developers may hate Victoria, but it’s shaming other states on housing

Abbotsford Convent fights plan to ‘wall off’ iconic spire with retirement village

Apartments get green light despite breaching Victoria’s liveability rules

Melbourne Mornings - On what Abundance means for Australia

Interview with Rafael Epstein, Melbourne Mornings, ABC Radio

A fight over Woolworths shows what’s wrong with Australian cities

The battle for Melbourne

Piedimonte’s inches closer to revamp as council considers laneway sale

Melbourne suburbs hailed as ‘NIMBY paradise’ revealed

How building more apartments could make these rich Melbourne suburbs more inclusive

ABC Radio Melbourne’s Housing Panel

High-profile Liberal candidate who pitched herself as a renter admits she owns two properties

House prices in Melbourne's eastern suburbs on a roller coaster, but young people don't get to ride

The high-rise towers planned for this bayside suburb will shock most people, residents say

Footscray Housing: Melbourne’s missing middle?

Fracas over Housing Supply Reform in VIC

Automatic green light for townhouses, small apartments to speed up builds

Council rejection means off-the-shelf apartment proposal won’t get off the ground

Bold or a ‘capitulation’? Victoria’s premier claims Labor’s reworked building goals are still on target

Victorian housing targets reduced in some Melbourne suburbs under government's final plan

The Allan government has shrunk its suburban high-rise plans. Here’s what’s changed

Car-free housing development approved in Coburg North

Nimbys v Yimbys: the affluent inner Melbourne suburbs that aren’t pulling their weight on housing

Revamp call for city’s planning system to build with beauty and end the ugly

Paris streetscapes, Berlin vibes: Call to revamp Melbourne’s ‘missing middle’