The impact of tyre wear and particulates on the environment is hardly new – but a new report from the Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences has found that a toxic chemical, 6PPD-quinone, was present on 23 of the 30 balconies tested around inner city Brisbane.

Your car might be covering your balcony in toxic dust

A chemical linked to dead fish was found on almost all the Brisbane balconies tested by University of Queensland researchers.

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Fantastic turnout at this today’s lunch chat on how we can tackle Brisbane’s housing crisis hosted by @grattaninstitute.bsky.social with Andrew Messenger from @australia.theguardian.com, Dr Rachel Gallagher and Natalie Rayment from YIMBY QLD.

Our national @abundanthousing.org.au network kicked off three years ago with a campaign to get the federal government to pay states to fix their outdated planning laws. Today we won.

Greater Canberra@greatercanberra.org.au · 3mo ago

We welcome this weekend’s Federal Budget announcement of a $2 billion local infrastructure fund to unlock more homes across the country. As one of Australia’s fastest-growing cities over the last couple of decades, Canberra must get its fair share of this huge federal investment.

Disappointing that the Queensland Government have decided not to action or outright reject all of the Productivity Commission's land use and planning reforms. This Government has prioritised protecting "neighbourhood character" over proven solutions to the housing crisis.

Construction productivity - Queensland Productivity Commission

The QPC has been asked by the Queensland Government to undertake an inquiry into opportunities to improve the productivity of the Queensland construction sector.

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Big Brisbane news! The Lactalis Pauls milk processing facility in South Brisbane has announced its closure in June this year, hot on the heels of the redevelopment of the Visy Glass and Heidelberg Hanson sites announced last year. These are the last big brownfield sites in Brisbane's inner city!

We just relaunched our website! We've been around for a few years now and thought we should show off all the work our volunteers have been doing. New and improved with news stories, all our newsletters and every bit of advocacy we've done!

Greater Brisbane 🏗️🏢 Brisbane's YIMBY network

We're Greater Brisbane Urbanists, grassroots YIMBYs working to build a better, fairer city for everyone. Join us and help build abundant housing, better transport and walkable streets.

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We’re terrible at social media so there’s no fun selfie but you have to believe us that we had a wonderful morning walking around Fortitude Valley reimagining what making the streets work for the people who live work and play here would be

If you live work or play around Alderley Train Station in the inner north, it's your last chance to help envision the new Alderley renewal precinct. Our local members have been encouraging their neighbours to push for more density close to the train station. Feedback closes Sunday so hop in quick!

Alderley Centre Suburban Renewal Precinct Plan project

We are working with the community to shape the Alderley Centre Suburban Renewal Precinct Plan. This plan will guide how we design buildings, create spaces, and support local jobs. The precinct plan wi...

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Next Thursday night is our last social event for the year and we’re joined for a holiday special by Brisbane’s errant son @jonobri.com talking about @yimby.melbourne’s and @inflectionpoints.work’s year in review. Spots are limited so get in quick.

RSVP to Inflection Points: Brisbane Launch | Partiful

Join us for drinks in Brisbane to celebrate the launch of Inflection Points, Australia’s new home for long-form, pro-growth policy writing. Gather with likeminded wonks for a casual chat over some d...

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They've been a few years coming, but Brisbane City Council has put Amendment L out for consultation. The amendment makes it much harder to build granny flats in Brisbane, especially those big enough to be a genuine option for renters. It limits size, height and site coverage for secondary dwellings.

Not the most exciting post but our AGM is coming up and we're stoked to announce our guest speaker is ABC's own Kenji Sato! Come along, have a beer and hearwhat it's like being the only journo to ride a bike to pressers. 12:30pm Saturday 25 September at the Burrow in West End.

Some West End residents are railing against a medium density development in their inner city suburb, just minutes from the CBD. It's sad that they're doing it at one of our favourite bars too. 😭

The Queensland Productivity Commission's monumental 324 page interim report into construction productivity, exhaustively diagnosing the manifold problems with Queensland’s building and construction industry. This is the kind of ambitious reform we need to reverse Brisbane's housing crisis.

Construction productivity - Queensland Productivity Commission

The QPC has been asked by the Queensland Government to undertake an inquiry into opportunities to improve the productivity of the Queensland construction sector.

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It was great chatting to @ginarush.bsky.social for today’s ABC Long Read. Our little ragtag crew at @greaterbrisbane.org have been trying to spin a new story about how our city could work. More than Sydney and Melbourne, Brisbane’s been fixated on a suburban lifestyle that’s not sustainable anymore.

YIMBYs vs NIMBYs in the battle for your backyard

The Yes In My Backyard movement is lobbying for denser cities and more housing in places people want to work and live and YIMBYs want these homes built yesterday. But the NIMBYs haven't given up yet.

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We’re proud to be part of the national team who brought these shovel-ready policies together for our Brick Book. For a “housing election”, it’s been very light on for policies that would actually boost housing supply. So here’s six.

Abundant Housing Network Australia@abundanthousing.org.au · last yr.

🧱 THE BRICK BOOK — A federal path to a nation that builds It's time for the Commonwealth to step up and shape how Australia uses its most precious asset: land. THE BRICK BOOK lays out 6 big ideas to help fix housing—and make Australia a nation that builds again. Thread 🧵

A Greater Brisbane? In this economy? Join us tonight 6pm, at Isles Lane in Post Office Square for a snack, chat and social, all welcome.

A handful of km from the city. Generally out of the flood zone. It's even the home of Torbreck! You could not name a better suburb for apartments. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...

Inner-city home owners say apartments are ‘inappropriate’ for their suburb

Urban planners say inner city Brisbane desperately needs more apartments, but local home owners are fighting against a proposal to protect their neighbourhood's "charm".

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So much of Brisbane is on a flood plain - and for many renters or first home buyers, your choice is to live somewhere flood prone and convenient or hours' commute from your friends, family or work. Meanwhile, all our inner city hills are locked down in low density character zones for well-off.

Australia is becoming an uninsurable nation. There may only be one solution | Nicki Hutley

With the outlook for risk of fire, flood and other disasters increasing, this is not a problem that will go away

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Dorina and Hal are both right that we need to put making housing more affordable before NIMBY’s self-interest and we need to build more medium density housing in Brisbane. And the best way we can do both is by overturning Brisbane’s outdated and exclusionary low-density character housing zones.

Lower home values a fair price for more housing, planner says

Apartment owners in the Brisbane suburb of St Lucia fear a new development nearby will lower their property prices, but urban planners say housing affordability is more important.

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Huge thank you to everyone who came along to our AGM on Sunday! It's been a big year for our volunteers!

Reminder that our annual strategy meeting’s this Sunday at Brisbane Square library!

Greater Brisbane 🏗️@greaterbrisbane.org · 2y ago

Our (blesssedly short) AGM and annual strategy day is in TWO WEEKS! Come along, meet our volunteer team and help us dream up what our next year of campaigning for a bigger, better Brisbane will look like!

The Abundant Housing Network Australia welcomes the addition of housing construction workers to the core skills visa list, a necessary step toward building the 1.2 million well-located homes our country desperately needs.

We're going to miss Stu's expertise and insights here in Brisbane now he's moving back across the Tasman. No-one's been as clear-eyed about how much impact upzoning has on boosting construction of public and private homes. This latest paper is a masterpiece and will go down in urbanist history.

Stu Donovan@studonovan.bsky.social · 2y ago

In this working paper that was published today, Matthew Maltman and I review some of the economic evidence on the effects of ✨upzoning✨in Auckland in 2016. tldr: We find remarkably robust evidence that upzoning led to more housing and lower rents in Auckland. Wow! www.motu.nz/our-research...

Our (blesssedly short) AGM and annual strategy day is in TWO WEEKS! Come along, meet our volunteer team and help us dream up what our next year of campaigning for a bigger, better Brisbane will look like!

Brisbane’s housing crisis is getting worse and will only get worse all the way to the Olympics at this rate. And Council’s answer isn’t to follow Sydney and Melbourne in bold planning reform and social housing investment — but to destroy the homes of people sleeping rough. Horrific.

Concerns about parks 'becoming no-go zones' spark crack down on homeless camps

Brisbane City Council has teamed up with police to investigate "anti-social behaviour" at the city's homeless camps after an increasing number of complaints.

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Hello Bluesky! We're AHNA, a national alliance of local community activists fighting for better cities and abundant housing—more homes where people want to live—all over Australia.

🚫🚗🧠 NO PARKING MINDSET 🚫🚗🧠 Last week, Greater Brisbane wrote to support Brisbane City Council's expansion of parking maximums to more of our inner city. But this is just scratching the surface of what we need to do to make our city walkable by the 2032 Games.

We're in the @brisbanetimes.bsky.social today talking about our Car Free CBD campaign to get non-commercial traffic out of the CBD by the 2032 Olympic Games! Fixing our mess of a toll road and inner city expressway system is a key first step in that. www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/que...

London makes CBD drivers pay up. Should Brisbane introduce a congestion tax?

Investing in roads, tunnels and pro-car infrastructure hasn’t dramatically eased traffic congestion. Is it time to start forcing some commuters to take public transport?

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