Tackling the Housing Crisis
The housing crisis is breaking people, and governments at all levels are tinkering around the edges instead of making the big changes we need to address housing affordability.
Council is prioritising luxury housing for wealthy developers over affordable housing for our communities. We should be building good-quality public homes that can be sold and rented cheaply.
Locals are being locked out of the housing market, and nobody wants to see our area become a place where only the rich and wealthy can afford to live. A vote for the Greens is a vote for bold action on the housing crisis.
On Council, the Greens will:
- Advocate for social and affordable housing components in all new developments, and agitate for more public housing from the state government
- Push for increases in housing density that will make homes more affordable and meet the needs of our communities, rather than wholesale rezoning to benefit big developers
- Support affordable housing for key workers, to address the critical shortage of nurses, teachers, hospitality staff and other essential workers
- Prioritise adequate infrastructure to accompany new housing developments, including more greenspace, public transport, schools, community spaces and healthcare facilities.
- Ensure environmental protection when considering zoning and development
- Stand up against the Minns government’s proposed zoning changes, which will give massive windfall profits to private developers, make land banking worse, and drive up the cost of housing
- Support measures to decrease homelessness, including by supporting local frontline services
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From Bicycle Advocate & Statistical Consultant to Greens Councillor
It became obvious that cycling was the best and most convenient way to travel in cities when I bought a second hand bike at the age of 17 in my 2nd year at Aberdeen University.
Other people thought so too. When I moved to Edinburgh, cyclists were starting to lobby for a cycle route across the Meadows from the south to the central area. The Lothian Cycle Campaign – Spokes – was born and continues to this day. Notable successes included the Meadows cycleway, disused railway lines converted into a network of traffic-free cycle routes across the city, maps of the most suitable routes, contra-flow bike lanes, cycle rallies, rides including the annual Edinburgh to St Andrews ride and increasing numbers of cyclists counted passing through key intersections. I was treasurer of Spokes for over 10 years until I moved to a small town in NSW, named after Armadale on the Isle of Skye.
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My journey to the Greens – Peter Haggar, Bega Valley Greens Councillor
I moved to the beautiful Bega Valley, on what I now know is Djiringanj land, in 2006 with my partner Anna who was pregnant with our child. We were determined to become active in our new community and deeply concerned and excited by the challenges and opportunities that knowledge of the deepening climate and ecological crisis would unleash.
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