This article explores the issue of community consultation in Australia's affordable housing developments, arguing that it often hinders progress due to NIMBYism and negativity bias. It highlights how exemptions for social and affordable housing projects are being considered to address this challenge.
These Wakerley residents say the community was not consulted enough on a 44-unit affordable housing project.Urban planners say Australia's community consultation system is worsening the country's housing crisis.
The University of Queensland associate professor said in Australia's community consultation sessions, NIMBYs — residents with the mentality "not in my backyard" — were over-represented.ABC Radio Brisbane: Kenji SatoShe said people who turned up to these sessions tended to be home owners who feared new houses would lower their property prices and diminish their views and parking spaces.
"What we see is this model of public participation has completely backfired in Australia, and that's why they have turned into bastions of NIMBYism."Centre for Independent Studies chief economist Peter Tulip said community consultation suffered from a negativity bias. "It's the busybodies who want to stick their nose into other people's business and complain that have their voices listened to."
Mr Bingham said he felt as though community members had not been given a say on what was happening in their own backyards. "State Facilitated Development powers exempt developers from the usual planning regulations, remove community consultation, and hide the approvals process behind closed doors, all without any requirement to build genuinely affordable housing or provide any real public benefit."Professor Pojani said it was not realistic, nor desirable, to scrap community consultation altogether from Australia's planning system.
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