YIMBY Melbourne @yimby.melbourne · 15/08/2026Our CEO, Jonathan O'Brien, spoke on ABC News Radio about how Australia's National Construction Code is misaligned with the reality of keeping our homes livable and comfortable → 074
YIMBY Melbourne @yimby.melbourne · 26/07/2026Everybody wants house prices down. The only way we can get there is by building more homes. 084
YIMBY Melbourne @yimby.melbourne · 13/07/2026"The fact that most of the residential land in our cities is locked up under highly restricted zoning makes sense of why we can't build the homes we need." The Australian Zoning Atlas is out now (see the link below)! 252
YIMBY Melbourne @yimby.melbourne · 29/06/2026More Melburnians deserve the choice to live close to transport, jobs and the city. That's exactly what the Activity Centres Program delivers. 1155
YIMBY Melbourne @yimby.melbourne · 24/06/2026BREAKING: Wealthy Bayside Council is taking the Victorian Government to the Supreme Court to block upzoning, paving the way for a broader legal challenge. NIMBYs would rather burn hundreds of thousands of dollars on lawyers than let young people live in their neighbourhood. 182
YIMBY Melbourne @yimby.melbourne · 03/06/2026Victoria’s planning reforms are working. There's been nearly a 50% increase in Townhouse permits since last year. Turns out it's not complicated: make building easier, and the homes follow. 0237
YIMBY Melbourne @yimby.melbourne · 22/05/2026EVENT: Our very own Katie Roberts-Hull will be representing us at a lively discussion about what's causing the housing crisis and how to fix it! Join us @ Table Scraps: Housing, who gets to belong? Tuesday, June 2nd 132
YIMBY Melbourne @yimby.melbourne · 20/05/2026Grattan Institute’s new report shows that letting Australian homebuyers choose the car-parking they need will: → make housing cheaper, → get more homes built faster, and → create more walkable cities. 1167
YIMBY Melbourne @yimby.melbourne · 23/04/2026Our own Jonathan O'Brien represented Abundant Housing Network Australia at the recent Commonwealth Inquiry into Productivity. Here he is talking about why our cities are the engines of Australia's economy: 182
YIMBY Melbourne @yimby.melbourne · 19/04/2026Rents fell in Austin when they built more homes. Good things are possible when you do planning reform 🏗️ 0175
YIMBY Melbourne @yimby.melbourne · 13/04/2026Jonathan O’Brien, Lead Organiser for YIMBY Melbourne, accused [the NIMBYs] of being “tone-deaf”, saying the proposal appeared to be compliant, and the apartments would get built. “Grandstanding against common-sense inner-city housing is just a really embarrassing look in 2026” 190
YIMBY Melbourne @yimby.melbourne · 01/04/2026“Old people don’t need places to live” say local NIMBYs. Plans to build a mid-rise retirement village on the site of an abandoned building received 51 formal objections in Vermont. 182
YIMBY Melbourne @yimby.melbourne · 01/04/2026Falling house prices? That sounds like a good housing market to me... 051
YIMBY Melbourne @yimby.melbourne · 23/03/2026Parliamentary inquiry into community consultation practices finds that local government ‘opt-in’ consultation is biased against renters and the young → 1104
YIMBY Melbourne @yimby.melbourne · 19/03/2026A massive victory in the war against upper-level setbacks! The Mid-Rise Code offers greater housing certainty for Melburnians. It also winds back one of the most damaging and poorly evidenced planning controls: upper-level setbacks. 3157
YIMBY Melbourne @yimby.melbourne · 13/03/2026Huge thanks to everyone who made our last event such a success. We heard from Brendan Coates and Alain Bertaud, followed by a panel joined by Jonathan O'Brien and Matthew Bowes (subbing in for Brendan). 161
YIMBY Melbourne @yimby.melbourne · 10/03/2026TONIGHT 👇 Join Alain Bertaud (author of Order without Design) and Brendan Coates (Grattan Institute) to discuss how to make Australian cities work better for everyone. [Link to tickets in next tweet] 161
YIMBY Melbourne @yimby.melbourne · 03/03/2026Are cities just giant labour markets? Alain Bertaud argues that cities should be designed by millions of individual trade-offs, not a single planner's estimated "average". 141
YIMBY Melbourne @yimby.melbourne · 27/02/2026💯 bang on the money. Younger Australians are facing worse and worse trade-offs in pursuit of housing affordability. To reverse intergenerational inequality, Governments must make our major cities accessible again. 100
YIMBY Melbourne @yimby.melbourne · 26/02/2026Last week, our lead organiser, Jonathan O'Brien, was on A Current Affair. He argued that we should not empower a loud minority to block new homes being built where people want to live. 063
YIMBY Melbourne @yimby.melbourne · 26/02/2026PRESS RELEASE → Whilst YIMBY Melbourne applauds the Coalition’s more positive housing vision, their plans leave too much to be desired. 185
YIMBY Melbourne @yimby.melbourne · 22/02/2026[Hosted by our Lead Organiser — Jonathan O'Brien] Australia gives billions of dollars to charity each year. But the rules governing where those dollars can go are outdated and often misaligned with impact. Is the DGR system the biggest handbrake on Aussie charity? 👇 110
YIMBY Melbourne @yimby.melbourne · 19/02/2026Help shape the future of Melbourne’s Activity Centres! Community Reference Groups (CRGs) are being formed right now to provide local feedback to the upzoning plans. If we want walkable, transit-oriented, and affordable neighbourhoods, we need YIMBYs in the room! 121
YIMBY Melbourne @yimby.melbourne · 17/02/2026🚨 We're close to selling out again! Get your ticket now! Join Alain Bertaud (author of Order without Design) and Brendan Coates (Grattan Institute) to discuss how to make Australian cities work better for everyone. [Link to tickets in next tweet] 151
YIMBY Melbourne @yimby.melbourne · 11/02/2026The final draft plans for Melbourne’s Activity Centre Program show a promising vision for housing where people want to live. But YIMBY Melbourne warns that restrictive minimum lot size rules could leave new homes on the drawing board. 1102
YIMBY Melbourne @yimby.melbourne · 10/02/2026🚨 Due to selling out, we’ve had to move to a larger venue! To celebrate the next 10 tickets will be sold at a discounted early bird price. Get them before they sell out! 150
YIMBY Melbourne @yimby.melbourne · 06/02/2026One site, two permits, two radically different reactions. NIMBYs overwhelmingly weaponise the planning system against social housing. It's time to stop listening to NIMBYs and build more homes. 176
YIMBY Melbourne @yimby.melbourne · 02/02/2026ANNOUNCEMENT → Order Without Design: How Markets Shape Cities — the Australian Tour Join Alain Bertaud (author of Order without Design) and Brendan Coates (Grattan Institute) to discuss how to make Australian cities work better for everyone. [Link to tickets in next tweet] 141
YIMBY Melbourne @yimby.melbourne · 01/02/2026We do not build enough homes where people want to live. Why? Because our urban planning systems make it impossible. We need our planning system to say 'yes', not 'no'. 283
YIMBY Melbourne @yimby.melbourne · 27/01/2026Commonwealth policy leaves young Australians locked out of community housing. The "youth housing penalty" is one of the factors behind the low rate of social housing tenancies being offered to young people, currently less than 3%. 👇 194
YIMBY Melbourne @yimby.melbourne · 25/01/202615 homes in Merri-bek turns into 3. This is how urban planning created the housing crisis. 0123
YIMBY Melbourne @yimby.melbourne · 22/01/2026Under current planning rules, most new apartments are forced onto our most polluted areas: main roads. Meanwhile, denser housing on our quieter and lesspolluted side streets is banned. 2113
YIMBY Melbourne @yimby.melbourne · 20/01/2026In 2023, a 3-storey apartment project was blocked as "underdevelopment". In 2025, on the same site, a 4-storey apartment project was blocked as "overdevelopment". Utter insanity. Our planning systems make it illegal to build any new homes. 1100
YIMBY Melbourne @yimby.melbourne · 18/01/2026Do you want to reduce carbon emissions? Try upzoning. Research shows detached houses produce 1.8-2.7x MORE greenhouse gases per person compared to apartments and townhouses. 3133
YIMBY Melbourne @yimby.melbourne · 15/01/2026It took twelve months, a VCAT hearing, a planning minister intervention and an expert panel to approve an “off-the-shelf” "fast-tracked" permit. This is what happens when you let local governments have free rein of the planning system. Lots of delays and no homes. 0131
YIMBY Melbourne @yimby.melbourne · 13/01/2026For decades, the loudest voices in planning were saying "No." We started YIMBY Melbourne to say "Yes." The Guardian credits that shift with driving a "planning policy revolution." Proof that when you show up with evidence & optimism, you can change policy!theguardian.comMelbourne is in the middle of a housing revolution – have the yimbys already won?Advocates say even they are surprised by Allan government’s embrace of higher density housing, but warn construction costs risk city becoming ‘victim of its success’ 0164
YIMBY Melbourne @yimby.melbourne · 11/01/2026This Victorian building has sat empty and derelict for five years. Owners had a plan to restore it and provide housing. Council planners gave it the green light. The majority of councillors voted to block it. 1104
YIMBY Melbourne @yimby.melbourne · 08/01/2026House prices are rising 1.5 times faster for properties below the 5% deposit guarantee price cap. Demand subsidies do not work. If you want to make housing cheaper, build more homes. 060
YIMBY Melbourne @yimby.melbourne · 01/01/2026Did you know a single car park can add up to $70k to the cost of a new home? This is why the Victorian Government just made a massive change: they’ve scrapped mandatory parking minimums for homes near good public transport 👇 2184
YIMBY Melbourne @yimby.melbourne · 30/12/2025It's been a big year for YIMBY Melbourne and we couldn't have done it without your support → ✅ 3 research notes ✅ 11 events\workshops ✅ 50+ media appearances ✅ And many advocacy wins We wish you all a happy New Year! 091
YIMBY Melbourne @yimby.melbourne · 28/12/2025New Research → Building more homes reduces displacement 174
YIMBY Melbourne @yimby.melbourne · 21/12/2025A NIMBY group in Thornbury claims they want “fair” growth, but their plan is anything but fair → 181
YIMBY Melbourne @yimby.melbourne · 18/12/2025Restricting higher-density housing leads to ❌Less homes ❌Higher prices ❌More segregation 🧵 131
YIMBY Melbourne @yimby.melbourne · 09/12/2025New apartments & townhouses are cheaper than the old detached houses they replace. We should allow cheaper housing options to be built where people want to live. 050
YIMBY Melbourne @yimby.melbourne · 07/12/2025New research suggests restricting higher-density housing leads to → ❌Less homes ❌Higher prices ❌More segregation 140
