Save Marrickville South

19/06/2026

But they do make some companies very rich…

💬 “When house prices move, they significantly affect units, but not the other way around.”

New research suggests Australia’s housing crisis is not being driven by a shortage of apartments but by system-wide price pressures originating in the market for freestanding homes.

The study challenges a key assumption underpinning current housing policy – that increasing apartment supply alone will substantially improve affordability.

Read more 🔗 https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2026/06/building-more-apartments-wont-ease-housing-crisis-new-research?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social

18/06/2026

Did you know there's a public drop-in session at Marrickville library TONIGHT from 6-8pm? Neither did we.
We'll be sharing our assessment of Council's proposed new Development Control Plan (DCP) - which is VERY light on detail - next week ahead of submissions closing on June 28, but meanwhile, this is your chance to ask some questions.

We’re creating one clear set of planning rules for the Inner West 🏡

The new Inner West DCP 2026 will replace the existing DCPs covering things like:
☀️ Sunlight and ventilation
🚲 Parking and transport
🌿 Sustainability and solar
🏘 Heritage and neighbourhood character

Find out more and have your say: https://yoursay.innerwest.nsw.gov.au/inner-west-development-control-plan

10/06/2026

Just a reminder that the housing affordability isn't driven by supply of housing OR immigration. The right tax settings, proper government investment in public housing and ensuring buildings aren't landbanked, left empty or turned into short-term rentals will go a long way towards solving the problem.

31/05/2026

Great explanation of the Inner West Council’s draft Affordable Housing Policy on the Better Futures Coalition website- have your say by 7 June!

Read our latest newsletter on the Inner West Council's draft Affordable Hosing Policy here: https://betterfutureco.com.au/affordable-housing-lets-get-the-details-right/

Subscribe to our news via our website www.betterfutureco.com.au

Make a submission here: https://yoursay.innerwest.nsw.gov.au/draft-affordable-housing-policy

21/05/2026

Removing local voices from planning decisions is anti-democratic - and a recipe for disaster.

URGENT NEWS AND ACTION REQUIRED

The NSW Labor Government is proposing a new “Community Participation Plan” that ironically reduces community participation for development proposals in your neighbourhood.

Worst cases – you are given 7 days’ notice that construction will start next door. Or no notice at all!

Find out how this may affect you – https://betterfutureco.com.au/a-community-participation-plan-that-reduces-community-participation/

Have your say before 3rd June. https://www.planningportal.nsw.gov.au/draftplans/exhibition/have-your-say-proposed-statewide-community-participation-plan

HERE IS A SUMMARY THAT MAY ASSIST "YOUR SAY":

The Inner West is the fourth highest density area of all 125 NSW Councils. It is essential that any new development in our area enables open community participation to ensure that any new developments work well in our very closely packed environment.

Even developments that “comply” can still create:
�• overshadowing �• privacy impacts �• parking and traffic pressure �• noise and disruption �• loss of local character

These are exactly the kinds of issues communities currently raise through the exhibition process.

Most people do not engage with abstract planning frameworks covering entire precincts years in advance.

They engage when a real proposal appears beside their home, on their street, or in their neighbourhood. We do not want lose our community voice.

Communities should still have the right to be informed and have a meaningful say about developments in their neighbourhoods.

To shut down community voices about our own neighbourhoods is draconian and top down, because it favours developers over neighbours, homes and communities.

17/05/2026

SAVE THE DATE! SUNDAY 7TH JUNE 2026 2PM. Leichhardt Matters! More details to come but put this meeting in your diary. Beautiful Leichhardt is particularly hit by re-zoning for huge sections of the suburb. Please come along and hear from great speakers about Leichhardt and the broader implications for the Inner West. Organised by Leichhardt Matters. Supported by RAHU - Renters And Housing Union NSW and Better Future Coalition - Inner West Sydney

11/05/2026

As our State & local governments move to concentrate more power in the hands of private property developers, we're already losing actual affordable housing (and business venues).

Please sign this petition, asking the Legislative Assembly to call on the Government to:
• Prohibit Affordable Housing Bonus (AHB) where it results in net loss of low-cost housing
• Ensure new affordable housing is genuinely affordable—capped at 30% of household income, retained in perpetuity
• Introduce location-based limits to the $75 million SSD threshold
• Assess infrastructure, amenity and heritage impacts prior to granting density
• Establish a Parliamentary Inquiry to publicly evaluate the AHB's operation

The Parliament of New South Wales acknowledges and respects the traditional lands of all Aboriginal people, and pays respects to all Elders past and present. We acknowledge the Gadigal people as the traditional custodians of the land on which the Parliament of New South Wales stands.

06/05/2026

Why we need different solutions to the housing affordability crisis

“For the better part of the past decade, trickle-down housing economics — embraced by YIMBY movements, think tanks and state treasuries alike — has reshaped the housing debate in Sydney and Australia around a deceptively simple premise: town planning is the problem. Cut red tape, housing will follow and become affordable” writes Tim Sneesby, a manager of town planning in local government and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney (the views expressed are his own).

“It’s a clean story. Politically useful. Intellectually seductive. But increasingly at odds with reality.”

Read the full piece on The Point: https://thepoint.com.au/opinions/260505-abundance-and-why-trickle-down-housing-economics-just-admitted-what-town-planners-always-knew

30/04/2026