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 · 20/05/2026Read the full report below: grattan.edu.au/report/waste... 020
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 · 23/04/2026You can read the full submission to this inquiry here: bsky.app/profile/abun...bsky.appAbundant Housing Network Australia (@abundanthousing.org.au)We urge the Commonwealth Government to follow the evidence and reduce the discount rate. The additional revenue recovered should be used to: → Fund a revitalised National Competition Policy, → Fund… 021
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 · 13/04/2026A vast majority of social housing tenants do not own cars. Adding extra car parking, to no benefit to the tenants, would increase the cost of each apartment by up to $60,000. Potentially blowing out the project cost by more than $2.7 million. 080
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 · 01/04/2026Everyone deserves the choice to stay in their local community as they age. Diverse housing choices make our neighbourhoods stronger, not weaker. 0110
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 · 23/03/2026Read the full final report into community consultation practices here: www.parliament.vic.gov.au/493f7b/conte... 021
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 · 19/03/2026Should the code prove effective, the government should expand its applicability by expanding the Residential Growth Zone and establishing Activity Centres around more of Melbourne’s train stations. 141
YIMBY Melbourne @yimby.melbourne · 19/03/2026As we face long-term fuel cost uncertainty, it is critical that we enable more homes to be built near jobs and public transport. In a high-cost era, we cannot afford the long delays of arbitrary processes—and that is exactly what the Mid-Rise Code seeks to overcome. 120
YIMBY Melbourne @yimby.melbourne · 19/03/2026The common-sense removal of upper-level setback requirements represents a planning ethos that respects evidence over established legacy planning norms, and represents the profession’s willingness to evolve to meet the challenges of today. 141
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 · 13/03/2026Missed the event? Inflection Points has you covered! inflectionpoints.work/podcast 010
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 · 03/03/2026Join Alain Bertaud (author of Order without Design) and Brendan Coates (Grattan Institute) to discuss how to make Australian cities work better for everyone. Tickets are nearly sold out! www.yimby.melbourne/tour 050
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 · 01/03/2026🚨 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. Get your tickets now 👇 www.yimby.melbourne/tour 040
YIMBY Melbourne @yimby.melbourne · 27/02/2026Full op-ed on the AFR here: www.afr.com/politics/thi... 000
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 · 26/02/2026The evidence is clear that restrictive planning controls are a significant long-term driver of Melbourne’s high housing costs. Sensible centre-right parties from New Zealand, to Canada to NSW show that centre-right housing policies don’t have to say “no”—they can say “yes and” 020
YIMBY Melbourne @yimby.melbourne · 26/02/2026The Grattan Institute shows the Activity Centre Program adds 110k+ feasible homes to Middle Melbourne. Any "alternative" that cuts this capacity will only hike prices and kill housing choice. We cannot afford a net loss in feasible housing. Impactful reform must stay. 121
YIMBY Melbourne @yimby.melbourne · 26/02/2026YIMBY modelling shows lifting controls in Fitzroy/Collingwood unlocks huge feasibility—the demand is there. But excluding Carlton, East Melbourne, and West Melbourne creates arbitrary gaps in our city core. 121
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 · 22/02/2026Get tickets to this live podcast recording now → events.humanitix.com/fixing-austr... 020
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 · 19/02/2026Sign up to be in the Community Reference Group below 👇 engage.vic.gov.au/activity-cen... 010
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 · 17/02/2026The Order without Design: how markets shape cities — the Australian Tour will host events across Sydney, Canberra, and Melbourne. Get your tickets now 👇 www.yimby.melbourne/tour 000
