As someone who has worked on many a multiplex high rise construction project I can attest to the veracity of this video… Edit: Southbank and Docklands in Melbourne are two of the most soulless, windswept concentrations of steel and glass termite mounds in the Southern Hemisphere. The “cultural and entertainment “ hub for these two dystopian suburbs is a casino! Oh, there’s also 3 empty cafes and an Asian grocery that consists of three aisles selling different packets of instant ramen. There’s barely even room for a footpath at the base of the Southbank towers. Oh yeah there were also two homeless teenage girls sleeping for weeks at the base of the Eureka Tower which has some of the most expensive penthouse apartment in Oz at the top. It basically made me think of it as a sort of living bar-graph showing the wealth disparity in modern society…
Turns out just building skycrapers without any sort of useful public facilities ends up in a soulless wasteland. Although tbh Docklands is starting to improve, at least there's a couple of parks there
That's what it's all about.. Kick backs. Whether laying multi billion dollars tram tracks.. Rebuilding perfectly good stadiums for no reason. The biggest crime this state Liberal government has done in NSW. is turning our ounce famous international entertainment district..KINGS CROSS.. into an exclusive retirement village.
I'm sure you heard about it Jordies but the Windsor Bridge was a perfect example of a lot of what you were talking about. A NSW state project that destroyed a historic bridge, wrecked a historic town square founded by Macquarie (oldest in Australia) and delivered a bridge that did nothing to alleviate traffic, flooded immediately and is already cracking. In the process they ignored a years long community protest, local council protests, a green ban, overturned a heritage listing and disregarded their own engineering advice. All so that a pointless bridge could be built whose sole real purpose was to allow sand mining further up the Hawkesbury. Love your work and nice shout out to the Bilpin Fruit Bowl.
The old town square was a roundabout it has always been built on and improved since Macquarie's time no historic building or site was harmed that didn't need to be the park wasn't even affect the old bridge was inspected multiple times by different independent and government bodies and was deemed as unsafe to allow heavy vehicle traffic if you walk underneath the bridge look at how much it was eroded away in the water and the bridge was never said to be flood proof it was to be raised so when the river swells but doesn't breach the low side bank people who live in Freeman's reach and Wilberforce can get across and not be stranded since the old bridge sat lower then both banks obviously if the low bank is breach then it doesn't matter then the flood planes will fill up all the way to the hill that Hawkesbury high sits on
@@oxcgen8592 It was a roundabout because it was mean to be a minor local road. We had the chance to divert heavy traffic away through a bypass but instead choose to ram a massive thoroughfare through. Go sit in the park, staring at the concrete retaining wall listening to the constant rumble of semis and tell me again nothing in the character of the area has changed. Also the bridge was heritage listed, the convict built barrel drains now buried under tonnes of concrete were heritage listed. The widening and expansion plans for the road will destroy several heritage houses. The bridge was found to be only in need of minor repairs by independent assessments and the government's own first assessment. It was only after they told the inspectors what to find was it found to be "unsafe". And multiple times during its development the government told us it delivered "flood-free access" and the reason they gave to overturn the heritage listing was the "vital" need to build a crossing that wouldn't flood. All the points you raise are more or less the LNP's lies. The new bridge is a badly made eyesore that destroyed heritage, doesn't fulfil the function it was supposed to and that stands a testament to the fact the people have no power in NSW. If the corrupt NSW government decide their corporate friends want a project built there is no action, protest, study or fact that will stop them making a quick buck. And the worst part, the very worst part is not the corruption, not the lies, or naked greed, disregard of heritage or even the lack of concern about what the people want. No the very worst thing is people like you, assuming you aren't an LNP spokesperson or member. If you are just a normal person then they have turned you against your fellow citizens. You are defending corruption, siding with soulless corporations who care about nothing but money and parroting the talking points of their puppets. The LNP is a cancer.
As someone from WA now living in Victoria, who has been to Sydney once and spent the whole time in covid quarantine, I'm impressed and pleased by how only a few months of Jordie indoctrination has made me go from "I dgaf about NSW, who cares?" to "these bastards are destroying NSW, somebody stop them".
@@Gori-f9g acts like Gladys couldn't have prevented COVID from spreading there with a quick lockdown. Or even better, prevented it from getting to New Zealand. How useless is your infection control when ur spreading that shit like Vegemite across all of oceania.
At least Soviets also planned about creating all the necessary amnities around the blocks of buildings as well, with transport and parks and so on. You were never too far away from your school, shops, cinemas, all was reachable by a 20 min walk tops. But my biggest grudge with these new apartments is just the quality of them, that even Kruschev would have said WTF to. Bedrooms with no windows that are more like wardrobes, kitchens in the bloody foyer, non existent sound proofing between rooms and a general feel that you are in some sort of an office space in which someone made a home out of. And none of them, NONE OF THEM are either appealing nor appropriate to raise a family in.
Plus the soviet plans encompassed so much more landmass and people so was incredibly more difficult. The plans were for many soviet occupied countries all over the union. Not one fucking city. Our govenrment is so incompetent
I remember back in the mid 90's a property developer wanted to develop on the site that was behind the Australian Stock Exchange, back when it was in Bond St. Sydney. They were denied on the grounds that the building on that site was heritage listed. So... shortly after that that building later mysteriously caught fire, a consequence of which also caused flooding in the computer room basement in the adjacent ASX, due to the fire brigade response to the burning building. Then later a property developer wanted to develop on the site of an old wool warehouse near Harris St. Ultimo, but that also was denied because the building on that site was heritage listed and then what do you know? It also mysteriously caught fire shortly after that. Seems to be quite fitting for corrupt NSW property developers.
This happens with alarming regularity, and not just in Sydney. Heritage buildings with redevelopment restrictions are ignored by their owners and we've come to refer to them as "waiting for a fire", which inevitably occurs.
Not to mention the Ghost Train at Luna Park being burned down by developers and several people loosing their lives, including children. ABC did an expose on it recently and the 'cold case' is now being reopened
Happened in Homebush. A historic building burned down not long after a developer was refused. The wood had not even stopped smouldering when signs were up in front of it advertising a new development.
In Melbourne it's not so surreptitious. They just demolish the building anyway and then pay the fine, for which they've already calculated in their budget.
As an architecture grad, I agree so goddamn much. These cookie-cutter, passionless shoeboxes are the bane of my existence and profession, and tarting them up with those random coloured panels is akin to glittering a turd. Keep preaching, FJ.
@@ivanbremer8662 you forgot trying to destroy the NDIS, screwing over the disabled, because who gives a fuck about us? Not the fucking LNP, that’s for sure.
@@trueKorvus That;s the point, urban planners aren't involved in the process anymore, just bureaucrats and "industry experts" who know where their next paycheck is coming from.
Be thankful that Normie Gallagher of the BLF put on green bans in the late 70s and 80s to save The Rocks area and the State Theatre In market Street . Sydney and Melbourne Would have NO architectural soul if not for him. He went to prison to save those areas and Sites in Wooloomolo, Balmain.. the Regent Theatre In Melbourne The man went through a lot to save our Architectural heritage but I never hear a word of thanks from anyone!
There's a reason that when you fly into NZ, Thailand and Hawaii, as soon as you arrive in the airport you see totems from their indegenous history and culture. Fly into Sydney and what do you get? Signs in mandarin advertising overpriced underbuilt Sydney apartments at the end of the runway. The NSW LNP government have created Sydney in their own image.
These apartment buildings are in direct violation of MOS part 139 obstacle limitation surfaces in reference to aviation, but the authority CASA which is a ever toothless tiger, opposed the construction due to safety reasons was ignored and the apartments were allowed to go up even though it breaches safe landing and take off distances. Probably not explaining well but yeah just the level of rampant corruption just for some Mulla at the cost of people's safety
I moved to the Central Coast to escape the Soviet block appartments. They are starting to appear up here also. The problem I saw living around the big apartment developments in Syd was the infrastructure around them wasn't actually being developed. No new schools, buses, train capacity, parking etc. Just a shitload of apartments.
Vic urban planning person here: this is a really key point, Australian cities are some of the lowest-density and most sprawling and car dependent in the developed world, and it would be an ecological and environmental catastrophe to build enough new housing to accommodate everyone if we just continued to stick with freestanding houses out into the hinterland ad nauseam. There has to be some change in density. However the way it's done in melbourne and sydney (from my understanding) is absolutely insane and basically ignores infrastructure, services and construction quality in any situation where those things come into conflict with developer profits or the pointless pursuit of a state govt budgetary surplus. There are ways to make cities denser without fucking over everyone's quality of life to an unreasonable degree but they require actual governance lol
how? Have not seen it so far. Lots of theory but no where in action. Using pretty photos of charming 18th century European towns when the reality is soviet style concrete bunkers is just deceptive. Planners are really just pawns for developers, big business and neoliberal governments. Planners used to be town council planners actually working for the people in their area but developers have delivered the planning profession huge amounts of money in contracts and employment so your view is not without conflict of interest.
As a Structural Engineer myself, albeit in Victoria. I can definitely attest to this. I have been blasted for coming up with a cheaper design for a council project. And I was told (in so many words) as it was coming up to an election cycle, any unspent funds would suggest the council could get by with less money.
I’ve worked for local government and it’s definitely a well held fear that if you don’t spend every cent or go over, then fed will cut your budget and resources significantly
Reminds me of the scene in, "Falling Down" (if you haven't seen it, it's well-worth watching) where Bill 'D-fens' Foster (Michael Douglas) berates a local council worker for fixing a street that was "perfectly fine" days before. D-fens said that he knew what it was all about - i.e. if the local govt doesn't spend all of their budget, the Federal/State (I forget which) will cut their funding for next year. Hence why they were doing these roadworks that didn't need to be done. (Bear in mind, Falling Down was made in the early 1990s...)
I've had to work so hard/wait so long to get financial support since I had to leave my job (due to disability + covid), that I fell behind on rent. It's been so long that my landlord got impatient and I'm getting evicted in 2 weeks. Reading stuff like this helps me understand why it's been so hard to get govt support - there obviously isn't enough to go around after we spend what we need to for the important stuff. Oh well - living in my car for a while probably won't exacerbate my deteriorating arthritic pain/stiffness, anyway.
I grew up in Brisbane during the Bjelke-Petersen years, so I have witnessed, first hand, the damage that can be done by policies like this. Joh had a demolition company on standby, who would go in and demolish heritage buildings at midnight, so that the public had no recourse. So, take action now,before you lose your heritage. You can’t imagine how corrupt it can get if you don’t.
Kath Estarion I grew up near Melbourne (Mornington Peninsula) during the darkness of the Kennett years. Much the same story. Ol' mate Jeff sold off nearly everything in Victoria that could be sold. Left Brumby & Bracks to clean up the mountain of shit. Then along came Baillieu/Napthine. Cue the ambulance fiasco, and more property developer shenanigans like you described above. The Andrews govt has tried to redress some of the balance, but there is the small matter of COVID-19 Delta strain that Dan & co. are trying to deal with. And ScQtty From Marketing is doing his usual, i.e. piddling while Australia burns... :/
Brisbane is also god awful with so many cookie cutter apartment blocks flying up all over the place. Constantly building new apartments but there is no focus on creating a cohesion between the different suburbs or making it nice to walk through. Even worse there's urban sprawl in every direction from the CBD creating traffic jams every rush hour
@@Infernus25 Heh, I went to Toowong shops the other day and the balcony of a student apartment block was so close you wouldn't even have to put effort into stepping onto someone's balcony and robbing the shite out of them. This can only end in tears. And by tears, I mean a serious hazard where a large number of wealthy people die due to construction failure- then the government and media will take notice. We're f*cked.
"Property developers are to the Liberals are what cotton developers are to the Nationals" Thanks to Blood Water I actually get that reference! Jordies going for both heads of the snake.
@@julesbrunton1728 Yep. Jordie’s strong alignment to one side is the one thing that worries me about him. His chosen side is just as broken - just in a very slightly different way.
@@friendlyjordies Adding to this point, another question. How does bothsides'ing the issue actually *help* anyone? The Coalition are actively fucking up peoples' lives right now, and the only party with a real chance of knocking them out federally is Labor. Bothsides'ing the issue is purpose built to create voter apathy which, surprise surprise, helps the Coalition.
@@mrsnrub282 nah Jordie lives for this and if he could would spend all day shitting on chuds in TH-cam comment sections. I’m fucking here for it so let the man have his hour off doing his leisure activity.
Consider this: 100 years ago we used to able tell which city we were in based solely off of the local architecture. Now it’s just concrete and glass McMansions, duplexes and soulless skyscrapers as far as the eye can see. We’ve all been forced to join a cult of profit-taking expedient ugliness…
That's an international cult! Don't know if it started here in the US, but really sad to hear it's spread in Australia. These are the same developers that made ugly, prison looking schools in the 1960-70's. Then, here, someone thought it would be cool to use "portables" for classrooms, hideous, double wide trailers, usually painted beige. How can we stop them??!!!
Here's another fun thought for you Wonder how many local fire dept's have the high power pumps and lift capacity to go over say, 10-15 story buildings? I would imagine its some, but we just winging it with a subcontractors lowest cost internal systems and basic staircase somewhere.
You can't whinge about unaffordable housing then also whinge about property development. Choose one. "The community", as in a bunch of whiny old people and bureaucrats, shouldn't have any power to prevent property development that lowers the prices young people have to pay. This is just nonsense.
@@bibsp3556 No you can't. (Not that it's a process we should even have a say in, since it's not our property.) Even if the government builds it some well-connected developer gets the contract. Do we want the shitshow of WestConnex for housing now too? You can guarantee it would be an overpriced contract in comparison to what greedy private individuals would pay, since they want to minimise their costs and purchase price. And I'd prefer money hungry vultures trying to balance costs with maximisation of sale price and speed of turnover because that means the land and materials will be used most efficiently to provide as much housing as quickly as possible, and not only that, but the mix of housing preferred by potential buyers.
@@fatpotatoe6039 Yes. The government should be doing a better job, so vote in a competent government. Youre assuming an awful lot in that comment. Maximising profits is bad when it means cutting corners.
It was insane seeing what happened to canterbury in such a short space of time. The developments along the cook's river in canterbury are fucked. Not only did they make sure property viewings were done at high tide because the cooks rivier smells like the inside of clive palmer's butthole at low tide but the tradies building these things were telling people down at the canterbury hotel that there were already cracks in the foundations because these new apartments were built on swampland. But hey, gotta get as many up as they can.
@@eo8240 & all the main roads: Burwood rd Belmore, Beamish st Campsie, Haldon st Lakemba, all covered in apartments now & regular house prices have tripled in the last 17 years. We lived in Gladstone st, near Canterbury leagues club, sold for 550 in 04, recently went for 1.6. Short of becoming a drug dealer & magically washing all that money, I cannot fathom how we're supposed to honestly own a home in the future.
Check out how many of the "mega" councils were originally smaller councils who refused the Westconnex when the LNP decided to prioritise more roads instead of upgrading the railway. Some of those councils refused to play ball with LNP, LNP announced a mega council. They put in an interim mayor and council and all of a sudden the Westconnex gets approved and signed off. Once the Westconnex was approved, the mega council had elections. When I first moved to Sydney, I lived at Homebush, right near the station. The first seven years of LNP turned that place into high density high rise apartments. The place sucks now, traffic is hell because no planning was done on the increase of population and everyone owning a car. Glad I moved out of Sydney for good.
I live in US and started paying attention to Aus politics after Tone Abbott became PM and I couldn't believe such a ridiculous person existed. Sorry about your politicians you almost have it as bad as here lol
Due to America being built on values of freedom and democracy, which were rather novel at the time, there's this tendency for your conservatives to 'conserve' freedom and democracy more than conservatives of traditional european/british cultures might, as they have strong historic roots in these things. There's still religious authoritarianism there, but it seems to compete with other forces in your right wing. Our country is built on royal British law, and our conservatives conserve that. They're religious authoritarians who are heavily controlled by the crown and the Jesuits order. Their mindset is totally old fashioned and out of touch. To top it off, our left wing has been just as mentally poisoned as every other left wing globally, by all these ridiculous 'woke' psyops and they've become a bunch of mindless dopamine junkies who also want numerous forms of technologically enhance authoritarian control. We're cornered here. There's nothing we can do to vote our way out.
I seen him the same day he visited pedophile George pell and then flew back to the central coast for a meeting with elderly voters. No respect for laws or their outcomes
@@TheMiddlest There’s enough houses problem is most of them are immediately bought out by multinational real estate companies to flip as investment properties
@@ljb4541 Lynette, are you saying that “progress” is meant to be ugly? No one is saying that more buildings to MEET community NEEDS should stop at some arbitrary point in time but rather, reflecting upon what we did and had in the past should be considered. After all, why have less when we can have more? And by this, I’m saying build upon the best aspects of our society and to achieve the highest quality possible. What your statement is leading to, is acquiescence for lower standards of construction and amenity. No thanks. The Public contributes sufficiently into Funds for a government to ensure equity in provisions for its citizens. Why should the greedy few, dictate the narrative here? Our standards in government and consequently, our society have been on a backslide for over 40 years. For those who have been fortunate to have travelled or even bothered to search the Internet will find that the constructions of 5 to 10 years ago (at least), resemble the design and quality of the high density constructions in countries like certain Asian and Middle East communities. 🤔 …and we do most of the current “Developers” and “Builders” hail from??? It seems that you only can do what you only know… or enabled to do.
Have lived in other parts of the world and have seen new developments that are beautifully designed with the community in mind. This is non-existent in Sydney. I used to think Sydney was one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Now you only have to travel a couple of blocks from the harbour or the beach to see that it’s a bloody mess.
South Park gets such bad rap for its vulgarity, that people often miss the insanely brilliant social commentary they have. Love that show so much. The continued story of Sodosopa and the following 'additions' to it, culminating in it's inevitable abandonment is so fucking good. But, it's kind of terrifying that it's also somewhat a reality as well.
Anyone who doesn't get how brilliant South Park is, is a moron in some way, shape or form. I have a friend who hates it... intellectually he is very intelligent, he is some kind of bio medical engineer or some shit like that hahaha, but yeah in other mental aspects he is definitely lacking.
@@homestarronny Maybe hes one of those people that are academically smart but he isnt great at linking the concepts together to see a broader narrative.
Pretty much the same deal in Vic. Property developers have more control than councils and they know their actions are illegal so they factor the fines into their operational costs. Knock down a heritage building in secret overnight and refuse to rebuild, you'll get a massive fine and then back to work building a concrete monstrosity to use as apartments.
i was driving through elsternwick one day with a friend who told me to go down one street, because there was a heritage home she really liked, and wanted to show me. it was being demolished when we arrived
It's not actually very common. There's 2 examples in Melbourne that come to mind only. And the example of "heritage home in elsternwick"... well that's EXACTLY why there's an affordability crisis... the NIMBY's love that their own spawn will never be able to afford within 40km of where they grew up because the grey hair love the fact they have 4 million next eggs... and no next generation, no kids in the schools or by the shops, no families, just fkn geriatrics shuffling down the high st... how sad
My gf's father has been a construction labourer in Sydney for 30 years and attests to the level of shoddiness put into these new sky-rises..... and he's Irish.
It’s so painfully true. I film realestate in Sydney and it’s so bleak. Basically every one of those typical unit blocks are all picked out of a catalog and built out of the cheapest materials and appliances. I’ve filmed two whole new apartment complexes a year apart and they were identical, I actually thought I had gone to the wrong one it was so similar.
Spot on. This has been my experience working for developers, particularly now as the maket is so hot, they lure purchasers into impossible contracts and sting them when they obviously can´t complete. Happy to chat.
This is the real answer. No one would build dog boxes if there wasn't mass migration to fill them. Cut migration back to the 70,000 it was before Howard and Rudd jacked it to 300,000 and the problem solves itself.
We all want to pay less tax, have the best infrastructure, health care, education. We also want innovation, technology and Aussie manufacturing. That shit ain't gunna happen with a population of sub 75 million. Build 3 more cities and bring more people on in... that's how Australia will get to the top. No Pfizer- 2 reasons. 1) Slomo is a flog 2) we are only a blip on the global map when it comes to power politics ie securing vaccine supply...
I live on the central coast and what they’re doing to the Gosford waterfront is depressing af- turned a school into a tax office, a big sports oval into a weird ass kids park and started building apartment blocks galore
Probably not the expected comment, but I’ve always fucking hated that kind of architecture. I don’t know why but it’s always been painful to look at, it’s like a person just went “oh yeah, brutalist architecture, yeah, I can do that, totally.” But they have no creativity, but still think that they can make it look nice.
@@alexsmith6600 Incorrect. We live in a society that values respect for people and our environment. Providing “any” type of basic shelter to help others in our community should not be a “something is better than nothing” approach. How cheap and nasty is your opinion?! Frankly, the same resources spent on small, concrete sarcophagi that overstuff small pockets of grassless land can EASILY provide designed spaces conducive to human amenity and health. Slapping panels of primary colours onto soulless structures is lazy and pathetic suggestions of design 🤦🏼♀️
Life in Sydney has become an absolute misery. Expensive, oppressive hell hole! Most people are stressed to the hilt becuase they have to work 5 days a week in some miserable job just to pay for a box to live in. It is bloody sick. We need a revolution and UBI as soon as possible. Life is for living, not slaving.
In Tasmania when Ray Groom was the Liberal Premier, the Liberal government reduced the number of seats in the parliament to block the Greens from being able to retain the seats they had held.
@@fightington That sounds accurate. I wouldn't know. I'm an Entomologist and couldn't care less about humans squabbling. Shanks makes it entertaining enough for me to check it out.
I have given up on owning my own place, so I’m just building a temporary 6x3m box on my parents land to live on, I don’t see myself owning any property in my lifetime.
@@tj40454 i feel you man, i am incredibly lucky to even have parents who have land for me, i know most don't even have that opportunity, i do have migrant/non australian friends who are struggling who i help both financially and socially, i try my best to help out.
Good on you mate. Is what it is, we choose to come to have a better life here but yeah thank you parents as much as you can and never stop spreading the love and doing good.
It's not just Sydney, or half of Australia. This is not just a hur dur lib bad, labour good issue. This is happening across the entire western world regardless of which "side" of politics is in charge. Hope you enjoy the fun future that is coming.
its a direct consequence of increased immigration at high rates where you need to build as much as fast as possible and fit as many people into one plot, yet you cant mention that part
@@co-mq7pb under the Liberals Australia has the highest rate of temporary migrants to residents in the world. So it may not be a labour good libs bad issue but on that issue as with many others, shock horror the libs are worse
My mum still thinks I'm pessimistic for saying that I will probably never own a house. By the time I have enough to buy one, there will probably be none left.
I work in architecture and i agree. People building eye sores and highly congested unit blocks. May look nice and rendered but 30years from now will be the new housing projects
I once worked with a guy who was basically retired but was doing exam vigilation for extra pocket money. He had worked on the Docklands redevelopment (I think he was a town planner) and he said that the regulatory body was completely toothless and that is why the developers got away with turning it into a soulless corporate jungle. This was a long time ago btw but I remember we had a few long conversations about it at the time.
After finishing my degree in town planning I lost all faith in the profession after a year because of this. Please continue this investigation. Planning is so important for our future but is totally captured by the property developers.
Even some local councils are in on the act. On two separate occasions in the last 6 years, my grandfather had two of his neighbours put up an illegal extra storey on their house that was against council regulations on overshadowing. All the liberals on the council, plus a few independents, waved them through. We later found out one of the independents had connections to local real estate interests. When we invited the Labor and Green councillors out to look at it, they said exactly the same thing: "how did THAT get approved?"
Should look at developments in metro areas too like Caloundra's Aura developed by Stockland. They are built on top of each other and some of the townhouse builds are the worst my Dad's seen. He works in the glass industry with windows & doors as a project manager, and worked with some of Sunshine Coast's top builders for 30+ years and they say Aura is a shamble of a development.
Totally agree in my local area a primary school (public) was wanting to build an new 3 story building (there are 3 story buildings a block away from it) and they had to change it to 2 stories and have a bigger footprint because of community concern. At the same time a private K-12 school were wanting to build a new building and they bypassed council and got permission for a 4 story building in an area that has no units (and can't build them) and has a maximum height of 2 stories and there was nothing anyone could do because they bypassed council. Both of these were built at the same time and are approx 1km away from each other.
Same thing happens in Melbourne in the area I grow up in Doncaster there is one section of apartment blocks that look like prison cells the area used to be just car dealerships, some pubs and free standing 1/4 acre houses now it's a shopping centre and prison cells that after 15 years the roof collapses and kills the people inside it
@@joshwilson7573 I consult clients on painting materials, surfaces and coatings. I sometimes do labor in the form of painting for the clients and other assorted handyman type duties. Not glamorous but I do actually do something during my working hours and occasionally outside of them.
The Queens Wharf project in Brisbane is being run by multiplex. It's absolutely shocking how bad they are at coordinating a jobsite that large. It used to be that thousands of dollars were lost every hour when it rained because they wouldn't waterproof the basements. Months later they found mould spores growing in all the basement levels and had to get every air scrubber in Queensland to try and keep the spore levels down. They earned the name mouldyplex pretty quickly.
@@Lostmusicvideos but his delivery of the depressing content is perfection. The bad people doing shit things is happening either way, at least with Jordies it’s funny and entertaining aswell.
Now you just have me getting all nostalgic over cheese tv before school and steam train rides to the blue mountains as a kid... makes you realise how much we have changed
As a 37 yo, under-employed jobseeker, living in the locked-up blue mountains, the dream of owning my own little forever place seems impossible, and the thought of never having my own place is both terrifying, and depressing. Why even try to bother when the prize is so unattainable? Gotta work your fingers to the bone, over a lifetime, just to afford a place you can’t barely enjoy, as your too busy working. No hope for the little guy, may end up living in a cave, down the bush.
I’m 44 and I’ve given up any hope of ever owning anything. It seems increasingly likely that most of us are never going to get to retire. It makes you wonder what the point of it all is?
Cry me a river. Join the defence force, do time away, save a deposit in 6 months. Buy a property NOT in Sydney, rent it out, wait a few years, use equity to buy another place, rent it out, rinse and repeat. It’s a proven formula
@@callumsmith338 um, first you must qualify to enter the defence force, but it’s not for everybody, and what’s the endgame? Be sent over to Afghanistan only to perhaps return? Help the police control citizens in all major cities, owning a home has never been so impossibly hard in Australia. It is NOT easy to claw ones way out of poverty.
@@Icipher353 I know exactly how you feel, it’s the worst feeling in the world, I can’t even afford to buy a cheap, isolated, rural place. Hang in there mate😊
Every one of Jordan's videos makes me less and less sure it was a good idea for my family to move from Argentina, as it appears we're headed in that direction anyway...
Heh as someone whom lived in the same street as mascot towers I had a good laugh every time you showed it , my neighbour was an engineer and he said these apartments are designed to only last 20 years and the law changed that the developer is only responsible for the building 24 months after construction and a lot of shell companies are used for insurance and parts so when SHTF it’s the Australian tax payer that has to bail out the boomer investors and those foolish enough to buy these apartments
I really encourage you to read Leviathan: The Unauthorised Biography of Sydney. You are covering very old well stomped ground here which both parties have walked since the inception of Sydney.
Meanwhile in Melbourne it's 150 shades of Grey, most of the year Grey sky's makes your showroom floor Silver Cars look grey on a grey freeway, with grey over passes, and the CBD is Greys too. Only diffence is they all get blue lights shining on them come dark, got some street art? World comes to see it? NOT ANYMORE CONCRETE SHADE OF GREY! it's like they want us to be bleak. Doesn't make the Black fashion uniform of Melbourne "POP" anymore that's just the background
To be fair urban sprawl isn’t the answer either and like it or not apartments are significantly cheaper than houses in australia capital cities right now. Councils just need to enforce better design standards and clean out the corrupt rodents
Yea agreed, apartments are certainly preferable to destroying surrounding natural environments. They also help reduce congestion if public transport is viable nearby as opposed to surburbs where everyone wants to drive to and from
I know this bloke who lives up central coast way who saw around 2017ish that the area was being turned into what he dubbed "The next Sydney suburb: Cloneville" and decided in the interest of closure and archival to go around and photograph every nook and cranny of the area before it was destroyed forever. come 2021, 20,000+ photos later and he's still going.
Randwick council has done a good job at managing development from what I’ve see : rejecting obscene proposal in little bay, the Newmarket development is the best of its kind that I’ve seen. And guess what… it’s a labour council.
One of these shitstains have just been approved next to where I live. Construction is temporarily on hold due to the pandemic. Labor has generally been better at restricting this shit but I want to see more done overall. Praying for a turnaround next election.
Ughh they're doing this here in Wollongong. Packing in hideous huge apartment buildings anywhere they can possibly squeeze them. There's one a few houses down from me and it's been non-stop jackhammering and grinding for the last year. There's already no parking within blocks of the hospital, yet they're putting up a new apartment complex on the same block as the hospital.
I'm an Australian living in a HDB right now. Neighbours make a huge difference (I'm the only foreigner on the block). Definitely don't plan on living here forever but I wouldn't call it an unpleasant experience for the time being.
Nope nope nope nope nope. Haven’t lived there but spent some time in the lorongs. Only type of place I’d like there is an old colonial house ready to be demolished. Or perenakan terrace. Nice beauty salons there
So, the rental we're in, in a small town in rural NSW, is falling apart, it's only 3 years old but it was done using the cheapest shit available, as quickly as possible. The woman who owns it lives in Sydney and has numerous new build duplex rentals in my town, raking in a cool $400 a month from each house. She's absentee and we don't really have any issues with the real estate etc, they're pretty good in terms of not being shit...but from talking to neighbours and other people in her properties, we've realized she has a few crafty tricks up her sleeve to get that extra cash in whilst doing the bare minimum. Trick number one: When the property is built and inspected, have two large water tanks in the garden, as it's a requirement for new builds to have them (still visible in the real estate photos). But, when your tenants turn up, there's no water tanks? That's because you're a crafty little slimeball, and instead of providing a drought prone area with much needed rainwater tanks, you take those tanks to your next property development until they tick the box, then move them on again. Trick number two: All your properties are duplexes with A and B sides...yet they never come up as duplexes on anything, just the one house. This may be innocent as I'm ignorant of property law but it seems like some kind of tax dodge. Also, don't bother putting soil down for the lawn, use road grit, turf over it and then get up your renters for not maintaining it when it all dies. Fuck I hate these people. Also, as an ecologist, a nod to the Scaup joke...
It's all over the place sadly. I remember a few years back visiting surfers paradise a pink sky rise apartment had cracked concrete with exposed reo right next to the beach. The Coffs Harbour police station/court house, one part looks like a day care centre with the coloured wall, million dollar windows facing a $50 view and petrol station, the front looks like a grand piano. Wasted 73 million dollars doing it
This was one of Bob Carr's passions. He often spoke of having to drive past those dreadful developments along ANZAC parade. Maybe interview him, it's one of his passions. He might have some inside information. Oh, just endure his compulsory quotes from Abraham Lincoln, he just does that.
LendLease bought up pretty much ALL of Darling Harbor, knocked the old beautiful buildings down, then dumped the ugliest buildings imaginable. The convention Centre looks like a mesh error from Trainz Railroad Simulator 2009.
in the wollondilly LGA the motto is " RURAL LIVING" but are developing sub divisions with blocks of land the size of hankerchiefs so they have to build taller buildings. the roads are so narrow even the garbage trucks have difficulty if a car is parked in the street and the roads in the area have been deemed the worst in the state. there is no hospital, the high school has been redone but will soon reach capacity and the public transport is, well, severely lacking. a train every 2 hours
You got to put "free standing" in quotation marks because I would barely consider those cubes that are built right up the property line, where every window points at the neighbor's version of that window and so close together you could lean out any said window and lick your neighbor's ear, as "free standing". They're basically townhouses with extra steps. (the extra step being the 1 step it takes to walk between those two "free standing" houses).
How do we solve the solution of housing without building higher density dwellings? I personally hate living in an apartment in Sydney but it is not by choice when detached houses are so damn out of reach for my generation (millennials) we have to either live closer to the CBD in apartment complexes or live far out west in woop woop where your commute is 1.5 hrs + a day, tolls etc. If we do not build enough dwellings then house prices would sky rocket further and put pressure on renters as well as there would be a lack of stock in the market to even rent in. We have stopped migration thus far due to COVID but once borders open up again in a very long time I can guarantee you property prices will further go up when there is a lack of supply in the market and everyone is fighting for a home to live in. There is obviously no simple solution to this problem but would love to hear people's thoughts/ ideas...
Half the battle is getting people out of cars and building functional public transport, so higher density suburbs on the outskirts of the city make sense and don't create a traffic hellscape. Zoning also needs to change so that shops can be built within these communuities, close enough to walk to. Another thing to note is that buildings taller than about 5 floors start costing significantly more money to build per apartment, and only make sense because the top floors can sell views to rich people. Actual density comes from streets of duplexes and row houses, not a couple giant glass, steel and concrete monoliths surrounded by single family homes.
First thing I'd suggest is address people/companies owning and leasing multiple properties. A single entity owning multiple properties takes houses out of the buyers market and drives up house prices due to lack of availability, which also steers people towards renting and drives up that market too. If you disincentivise people owning multiple properties then houses will be released to the public, so more people can outright own a home and prices go down due to increased availability. Renting prices might fall slightly too, due to the demand for rent falling. I'm spitballing here obviously but you would only get penalised on, say, the third or fourth property and above. That would allow people to have a house, a renting property, and/or a holiday home without hitting the limit. I think if you're affluent enough to afford more than that, you're affluent enough to adequately compensate the public for taking houses out of the market. Not sure HOW exactly it should be addressed. I do have some ideas but I can see the flaws in them - raising taxes on the extra properties might not be enough disincentive, and making it outright illegal would be far too harsh. But in general, this would be where I would think to start addressing housing availability issues.
This is something I think about all the time. Its apart of the Sydney psyche. If anyone has any good reading on the subject would love a recommendation.
I had 2 friends planning to move into 2 different apartments in the inner west around the same time 3 yrs ago. Due to cracks in both buildings they were left in the lurch, having provided notice of termination to their old landlord and nowhere to move into.
It's exactly the same here in Victoria under Labor. For example, when the severe lockdown was re-introduced Parliament was not allowed to debate, all shops closed etc. BUT the good old construction industry carried on constructing. Our government has managed to spend $BN 144 in the past 6 years on construction projects, mainly road, at a time when all road construction should basically be terminated, and AT THE SAME TIME became the first (only) state government to put a tax on electric vehicles. Funny - the old petrol "usage" tax was/is levied at a federal level but the fact that electric vehicles don't pay that tax was the justification for Labor's new anti-green tax. That $144BN is unprecedented in real terms and is disguised because liabilities are not reported on the state government's accounts - bypassing global accounting standards.
Complaining is easy. But what exactly are the alternatives though? 1) Build single McMansion dwellings absolutely everywhere so Sydney looks like Los Angeles with 100km+ of car-dependent urban sprawl and highways in every direction that isn't water or mountains? Imagine the environmental damage, not only from the carbon pollution of massive car dependence, but also removal of native vegetation, building new infrastructure and the poor energy efficiency of single dwelling McMansion urban sprawl. How does urban sprawl go with water usage on the green lawns? Bushfires? 2) Stop building housing all together so only the ultra rich can live there in their untouched low density suburbs? Also, local communities have a vested interest in stopping housing development to increase their local house prices (for example Byron Bay, Noosa, Eastern Sydney). How do you stop that type of corruption? Maybe the poor can live 12 to a house? Just hope there isn't a pandemic as wouldn't end up well ...
@@michaelpearen9778 the fallacy is that you present an either or scenario of your choosing, constrained to fit your narrative. The reality is that there are more than your two options, and choosing neither of them doesn't represent climate denial.
Thing is, having a freestanding house IS a luxury in a city. Duplexes and townhouses are the way to go, it worked in Europe for centuries, and it looks nice, it's nice to live in... When it's not built for bottom dollar with no regard for livability or longevity.
@@rageoval8997 very few of us will be living in those expensive 1 bedroom cardboard investment properties. So many new apartments in Sydney are empty because they're too small for families, too expensive for singles and investors would rather skip out on agent fees and flip it in 10 years for a profit.
Watching this made me think of a bunch of pollies with a big fan blowing cash around and then acting delightfully surprised when some of it lands in a basket hanging around their necks.
It's a great shame. I'm an architecture student in Sydney and it seems like we have been losing out to developers for a while now due to price competition, goes to show how unappreciated the profession is and how the city gets screwed from letting developer put up generic crap for the sake of pure profit.
Wrong pal. I'm an architect. Blame the prescriptive planning controls, the extreme fire engineering solutions (driven by insurers with PI policies) are the actual reasons
@@nmciw Is it really? My mentors have always taught me that restrictions and controls like the ones you have mentioned should be viewed as opportunities. Isn't that what architecture boils down too? I honestly would like to know more of your insights as a practising architect to this issue. Especially here in Sydney, all the teaching architects and lecturers I've meet suggested that project developer were our competitors. Also supporting my initial comment, go out 30 minutes west from the city and what do you find? Dozens and dozens of estate projects by developers where you have thousands of generic homes lined up to one another.
@@Infinite_Ouroboros there's certainly opportunity to do better, and there are some exemplar projects out there. But yep, what I am saying is correct. Planning controls dictate height, setbacks, uses et al. In Melbourne, we also have BADS which has been good for some elements, and horrendous for others. Ie in a 1 bed apartment you must provide frontage to the living and bedroom. Hello 2.8m wide bedroom a 2.8m wide living room next to it. I'd personally rather have a 5.6m wide living room with a borrowed light bedroom, (it's a 1 bedders after all, so not like you need privacy from guests). So any innovative typologies are rejected because they don't meet the prescriptive criteria... Then you get a fire engineer/ surveyor involved- no combustible cladding (now, you can't even use timber finishes externally as they are deemed fire sources- hello metal look timber) so not many cladding systems available anymore... Hello concrete... then they Say "windows are too close together, fire can jump between apartments, so make them smaller and don't let them open"... then the final nail in the coffin- must be concrete to achieve the fire ratings... Sorry, not to be jaded, there's still lots of great projects out there into the future... but I honestly think a lot of developers would do better by their sites if they were allowed to do so without a 2 year legal bill trying to justify what they are doing to a system that prefers conformance
@@nmciw @nmciw Thanks, that was very insightful. So would you say our profession is dying or becoming obsolete, because everything is being standardised and restricted to the point where it's not worth fighting against. Architects dont get paid well considering the workload and im honestly struggling find an answer that we can do to resist conformality to the government. Is another movement due for our profession?
@@Infinite_Ouroboros that's the age old question. Huge firm = average work on fantastic projects... small firm = more interesting work but not working on notable jobs. Architecture at an academic level creates a feedback loop- arch students get disenchanted with "the real world" go back and become lecturers where it's "fun"... get students excited about theoretical design... go out, practise, get disenchanted, teach even less realistic outcomes. But srsly, architecture is great. There are opportunities everywhere and people always strive for the dream house, the sexy new office, the cool hotel... I am not jaded, I love it, but I also enjoy the other components of my job that aren't drawing... research , BD, pitching, coordinating construction challenges, internal design crits and presentations... It's really rewarding- hence too many damn kids do it at uni, leading to lower wages. If you're still studying you've got heaps of years ahead. Do architecture for 10 years... change to a new career... go back to arch... you've got like 5 x 10 year windows to enjoy work. Try it out, you'll be impressed!!
Totally agree but both the LNP and Labor have policies that encourage high immigration rates and these people have to go somewhere, this is a symptom not the problem.
Property developers are scum for sure. But have a look into the missing middle. It's all the small housing and walk able cities instead of only having either high rises or huge detached houses in suburbia.
Sydney was gone 10 years ago when I went there for a 4 day weekend, but had enough after 2 days and bought an extra plane ticket to have the rest of my holiday back in Melbourne.
Hey Jordan, you would be too young to remember how in the lead up to a state election years ago Bob Carr came campaigning in my electorate of Bathurst - no forced amalgamations of councils. So I manned the polling booths with my union comrades handing out Labor how to votes. Even had an application to join Labour, still got it. FMD within 6 months of election my council (Evans) was amalgamated into Bathurst. In a short period of time the safe Labour seat of Bathurst since Chifley was delivered to odious hands of the Nationals as it has ever since. Safe National seat of Orange went to Farmers Shooters Fishers based on this sentiment. Guess who I joined? Love hearing your perspective BTW even when I don't agree. Cheers
Hmm. On one of my darker more conspiracy theory accepting lockdown days, it did occurr to me how convenient it would be for developers if all those community parks are sitting empty and unuseable if lockdowns extend for too long.
@@simoncrooke1644 You don't actually believe this, do you? All govt. are crooks along with their MSM dogs. Anything they say about corona must responsibly tossed out the window because they're a pack of liars.
my old hometown had to merge with a council near them. That bigger council sold off everything that the smaller council owned, including the town doctor's house, so he had to move. They took all of the funds from the small town, put rates up and don't do anything in terms of upgrades to the roads because the city the bigger council are in, have spent it all in their city. While the smaller town are just being hung up to dry and forgotten about.
Some developers around melbourne are getting up to some pretty shifty stuff, look into the new laws around developers of low income housing, they're making a killing after their 5 years are up.
@@dmeritt3425 It's not a race thing, developers get a portion of the money to construct low income housing back from the government, this in and of itself wouldn't or shouldn't be a problem, however developers are building relatively inexpensive, two or three story homes, renting them out for the obligated 5 years then selling them immediately for far more than they are worth due to the housing bubble, and with a not insignificant portion of the construction cost and rent paid for with your tax dollar going directly into their bank account, we have privatised public housing and the people developing these huge packed in apartment complexes for "low income housing" are essentially pocketing everyone's tax by continually building one complex after another then selling them to hard working middle class australians with an absurd increase in price. Millionaires are milking a system designed to help the poor and it's disgusting.
Greg Hunt literally did this with urban renewal. Using the community agency I was working at (Good Shepherd). Lot of council members politicking to be Hunt's dux. Then the hipsters took over (I was running their social media for their renewal project, on top of chairing committee meetings) and just... it runs deep, open secrets, town gossip, that sort of thing
@@tinto278 yes and no. Probably not worth getting into an argument about that but I can understand where you're coming from. Modern Singapore is very, very influenced by what you've said above, but I wouldn't say they're 'controlled' in the same sense that Australia's governments is by the mining and construction industry. It'd be very unlikely to find a politician in Singapore with any of these companies in their portfolio. It's more of a GDP powermove by the government that's gone a bit too far.
Should look into multiplex defence maintenance. They changed the company name to johnson controls but its still multiplex. I worked for them for quite a while and OMG the waste of money in any thing defence defies belief. I once calculated the cost to replace single a toilet roll holder in a bathroom that doesn't even get used at the Richmond RAAF base. $1200... and that was probably conservative.
lockdown is the perfect time for WARHAM... COME ON Y'ALL SHOUT IT OUT WITH ME "WHEN'S WARHAM ???" GIVE US THE CONTENT WE WANT JORDIE , PENNY SAID YOURE GOOD FOR IT...
I'm actually studying to do the devils work right now, and considering one of my current modules is building sustainability the timing of this is uncanny. However, You're bang on with the amalgamations, its less minds to convince, pressure, intimidate... work smarter not harder right? Why go to 5 ponds when you can catch the same amount of fish in 1. I wouldn't say inaction is the solution though, otherwise we will be at a point where architectural expression is lost, same as the soviet housing, except we will be sheltering people from 45-50 degree heatwaves. Food for thought though, what if there was a formula that was something like: for every 100m2 of development, 10m2 must be developed as public parks or recreational areas, fully accessible by the public, within a 5km radius. Prevents the runaway effect of developing property just for financial gain, retains natural elements and is socially sustainable, while also ensuring that Bruz doesn't Pork Barrel and stock pile parks in elite areas.
Full Disclosure: after watching 600 friendlyjordies videos, I still am unclear as to the definition of Pork Barreling, but that won't stop me throwing it round 🤣
Reminds me of the new-builds in England, I went to Blackpool for a holiday and literally every building was either a rundown council estate or a soulless, copy-pasted, cheaply built red new-build. Reflects the current state of the UK today. Cost of living crisis, broken politics and soulless homes that cost £1000 a month to rent. Love Ingerland innit. Hopefully the new-build disease doesn't spread into Scotland...
As someone who has worked on many a multiplex high rise construction project I can attest to the veracity of this video…
Edit: Southbank and Docklands in Melbourne are two of the most soulless, windswept concentrations of steel and glass termite mounds in the Southern Hemisphere. The “cultural and entertainment “ hub for these two dystopian suburbs is a casino! Oh, there’s also 3 empty cafes and an Asian grocery that consists of three aisles selling different packets of instant ramen. There’s barely even room for a footpath at the base of the Southbank towers. Oh yeah there were also two homeless teenage girls sleeping for weeks at the base of the Eureka Tower which has some of the most expensive penthouse apartment in Oz at the top. It basically made me think of it as a sort of living bar-graph showing the wealth disparity in modern society…
this sir is poetry
Oh no! Shelter!!
I live in Southbank can verify the two homeless girls are still there but they are finally putting a footpath in so you know progress ahahh
Turns out just building skycrapers without any sort of useful public facilities ends up in a soulless wasteland.
Although tbh Docklands is starting to improve, at least there's a couple of parks there
i worked on the new Royal Adelaide Hospital and it’s the exact same, an atrocious piece of windswept glass and concrete
"Property Developers are the shadow Government of New South Wales" - Hits home so hard Jordan and imo is your best one liner to date.
If you cross them they are ruthless , just ask Juanita Nielsen ? Well you can't she disappeared .
@@bradleydavies4781 are they bad? Just curious why.
@@PhiyackYuh Just watch the clip .
That's what it's all about..
Kick backs.
Whether laying multi billion dollars tram tracks..
Rebuilding perfectly good stadiums
for no reason.
The biggest crime this state Liberal government has done in NSW.
is turning our ounce famous international entertainment district..KINGS CROSS..
into an exclusive retirement village.
@@gore1089 Testify brother tell it like it is !
I'm sure you heard about it Jordies but the Windsor Bridge was a perfect example of a lot of what you were talking about. A NSW state project that destroyed a historic bridge, wrecked a historic town square founded by Macquarie (oldest in Australia) and delivered a bridge that did nothing to alleviate traffic, flooded immediately and is already cracking. In the process they ignored a years long community protest, local council protests, a green ban, overturned a heritage listing and disregarded their own engineering advice. All so that a pointless bridge could be built whose sole real purpose was to allow sand mining further up the Hawkesbury.
Love your work and nice shout out to the Bilpin Fruit Bowl.
They knocked down the old bridge because they wanted to put a sand barge through and used the excuse of flood proof to get it in
@@meganpronesti9941 Yeah and in that perfect ironic moment it flooded almost as soon as it was built.
The old town square was a roundabout it has always been built on and improved since Macquarie's time no historic building or site was harmed that didn't need to be the park wasn't even affect the old bridge was inspected multiple times by different independent and government bodies and was deemed as unsafe to allow heavy vehicle traffic if you walk underneath the bridge look at how much it was eroded away in the water and the bridge was never said to be flood proof it was to be raised so when the river swells but doesn't breach the low side bank people who live in Freeman's reach and Wilberforce can get across and not be stranded since the old bridge sat lower then both banks obviously if the low bank is breach then it doesn't matter then the flood planes will fill up all the way to the hill that Hawkesbury high sits on
The flooded flood proof bridge; glorious
@@oxcgen8592 It was a roundabout because it was mean to be a minor local road. We had the chance to divert heavy traffic away through a bypass but instead choose to ram a massive thoroughfare through. Go sit in the park, staring at the concrete retaining wall listening to the constant rumble of semis and tell me again nothing in the character of the area has changed. Also the bridge was heritage listed, the convict built barrel drains now buried under tonnes of concrete were heritage listed. The widening and expansion plans for the road will destroy several heritage houses. The bridge was found to be only in need of minor repairs by independent assessments and the government's own first assessment. It was only after they told the inspectors what to find was it found to be "unsafe". And multiple times during its development the government told us it delivered "flood-free access" and the reason they gave to overturn the heritage listing was the "vital" need to build a crossing that wouldn't flood. All the points you raise are more or less the LNP's lies. The new bridge is a badly made eyesore that destroyed heritage, doesn't fulfil the function it was supposed to and that stands a testament to the fact the people have no power in NSW. If the corrupt NSW government decide their corporate friends want a project built there is no action, protest, study or fact that will stop them making a quick buck. And the worst part, the very worst part is not the corruption, not the lies, or naked greed, disregard of heritage or even the lack of concern about what the people want. No the very worst thing is people like you, assuming you aren't an LNP spokesperson or member. If you are just a normal person then they have turned you against your fellow citizens. You are defending corruption, siding with soulless corporations who care about nothing but money and parroting the talking points of their puppets. The LNP is a cancer.
As someone from WA now living in Victoria, who has been to Sydney once and spent the whole time in covid quarantine, I'm impressed and pleased by how only a few months of Jordie indoctrination has made me go from "I dgaf about NSW, who cares?" to "these bastards are destroying NSW, somebody stop them".
So you're a nobody ok
@@neromax4424 YESSSS. But what part of that triggered your response?
NSW labor party have been disappointing, all labor seats have been deemed hot spots and the local MPs are hiding under a rock
@@Gori-f9g come on, try hard, try harder. Your troll effort was laughable and made you look stupid.
@@Gori-f9g acts like Gladys couldn't have prevented COVID from spreading there with a quick lockdown. Or even better, prevented it from getting to New Zealand. How useless is your infection control when ur spreading that shit like Vegemite across all of oceania.
At least Soviets also planned about creating all the necessary amnities around the blocks of buildings as well, with transport and parks and so on. You were never too far away from your school, shops, cinemas, all was reachable by a 20 min walk tops.
But my biggest grudge with these new apartments is just the quality of them, that even Kruschev would have said WTF to. Bedrooms with no windows that are more like wardrobes, kitchens in the bloody foyer, non existent sound proofing between rooms and a general feel that you are in some sort of an office space in which someone made a home out of. And none of them, NONE OF THEM are either appealing nor appropriate to raise a family in.
Plus the soviet plans encompassed so much more landmass and people so was incredibly more difficult. The plans were for many soviet occupied countries all over the union. Not one fucking city. Our govenrment is so incompetent
Agreed. I'm all for cities being built around public transport and apartment complexes, but not like yjis
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That will be 500,000$ plus cost as well for a garbage unit
Nice and close to nuclear reactor for worker to walk to comrade.
I remember back in the mid 90's a property developer wanted to develop on the site that was behind the Australian Stock Exchange, back when it was in Bond St. Sydney. They were denied on the grounds that the building on that site was heritage listed.
So... shortly after that that building later mysteriously caught fire, a consequence of which also caused flooding in the computer room basement in the adjacent ASX, due to the fire brigade response to the burning building.
Then later a property developer wanted to develop on the site of an old wool warehouse near Harris St. Ultimo, but that also was denied because the building on that site was heritage listed and then what do you know? It also mysteriously caught fire shortly after that.
Seems to be quite fitting for corrupt NSW property developers.
This happens with alarming regularity, and not just in Sydney. Heritage buildings with redevelopment restrictions are ignored by their owners and we've come to refer to them as "waiting for a fire", which inevitably occurs.
Lots of this in Brisbane too
Not to mention the Ghost Train at Luna Park being burned down by developers and several people loosing their lives, including children. ABC did an expose on it recently and the 'cold case' is now being reopened
Happened in Homebush. A historic building burned down not long after a developer was refused. The wood had not even stopped smouldering when signs were up in front of it advertising a new development.
In Melbourne it's not so surreptitious. They just demolish the building anyway and then pay the fine, for which they've already calculated in their budget.
As an architecture grad, I agree so goddamn much. These cookie-cutter, passionless shoeboxes are the bane of my existence and profession, and tarting them up with those random coloured panels is akin to glittering a turd.
Keep preaching, FJ.
As an arch grad, I fully endorse you comment.
I blame the urban planners lack of vision for the future - or maybe their hands are tied due to political short-sightedness?
@@ivanbremer8662 you forgot trying to destroy the NDIS, screwing over the disabled, because who gives a fuck about us? Not the fucking LNP, that’s for sure.
@@trueKorvus That;s the point, urban planners aren't involved in the process anymore, just bureaucrats and "industry experts" who know where their next paycheck is coming from.
Be thankful that Normie Gallagher of the BLF put on green bans in the late 70s and 80s to save The Rocks area and the State Theatre In market Street .
Sydney and Melbourne Would have NO architectural soul if not for him.
He went to prison to save those areas and Sites in Wooloomolo, Balmain.. the Regent Theatre In Melbourne
The man went through a lot to save our Architectural heritage but I never hear a word of thanks from anyone!
There's a reason that when you fly into NZ, Thailand and Hawaii, as soon as you arrive in the airport you see totems from their indegenous history and culture. Fly into Sydney and what do you get? Signs in mandarin advertising overpriced underbuilt Sydney apartments at the end of the runway. The NSW LNP government have created Sydney in their own image.
These apartment buildings are in direct violation of MOS part 139 obstacle limitation surfaces in reference to aviation, but the authority CASA which is a ever toothless tiger, opposed the construction due to safety reasons was ignored and the apartments were allowed to go up even though it breaches safe landing and take off distances. Probably not explaining well but yeah just the level of rampant corruption just for some Mulla at the cost of people's safety
I moved to the Central Coast to escape the Soviet block appartments. They are starting to appear up here also. The problem I saw living around the big apartment developments in Syd was the infrastructure around them wasn't actually being developed. No new schools, buses, train capacity, parking etc. Just a shitload of apartments.
Vic urban planning person here: this is a really key point, Australian cities are some of the lowest-density and most sprawling and car dependent in the developed world, and it would be an ecological and environmental catastrophe to build enough new housing to accommodate everyone if we just continued to stick with freestanding houses out into the hinterland ad nauseam. There has to be some change in density. However the way it's done in melbourne and sydney (from my understanding) is absolutely insane and basically ignores infrastructure, services and construction quality in any situation where those things come into conflict with developer profits or the pointless pursuit of a state govt budgetary surplus. There are ways to make cities denser without fucking over everyone's quality of life to an unreasonable degree but they require actual governance lol
@@yoooooooooooooooooou Great perspective. thank you.
They're all over Perth too
@@tbone2646 bummer mate.
how? Have not seen it so far. Lots of theory but no where in action. Using pretty photos of charming 18th century European towns when the reality is soviet style concrete bunkers is just deceptive. Planners are really just pawns for developers, big business and neoliberal governments. Planners used to be town council planners actually working for the people in their area but developers have delivered the planning profession huge amounts of money in contracts and employment so your view is not without conflict of interest.
As a Structural Engineer myself, albeit in Victoria. I can definitely attest to this. I have been blasted for coming up with a cheaper design for a council project. And I was told (in so many words) as it was coming up to an election cycle, any unspent funds would suggest the council could get by with less money.
I’ve worked for local government and it’s definitely a well held fear that if you don’t spend every cent or go over, then fed will cut your budget and resources significantly
Reminds me of the scene in, "Falling Down" (if you haven't seen it, it's well-worth watching) where Bill 'D-fens' Foster (Michael Douglas) berates a local council worker for fixing a street that was "perfectly fine" days before. D-fens said that he knew what it was all about - i.e. if the local govt doesn't spend all of their budget, the Federal/State (I forget which) will cut their funding for next year. Hence why they were doing these roadworks that didn't need to be done. (Bear in mind, Falling Down was made in the early 1990s...)
I need a Structural Engineer, someone who knows how to lower costs. Are you looking for work?
I've had to work so hard/wait so long to get financial support since I had to leave my job (due to disability + covid), that I fell behind on rent. It's been so long that my landlord got impatient and I'm getting evicted in 2 weeks.
Reading stuff like this helps me understand why it's been so hard to get govt support - there obviously isn't enough to go around after we spend what we need to for the important stuff.
Oh well - living in my car for a while probably won't exacerbate my deteriorating arthritic pain/stiffness, anyway.
GG AUSTRALIA
BG Sydney.
Surprised to see you here. But yes, GG.
A bit dramatic, don't you think? Australia is a huge country. Go into the outback and camp in front of a fire and Australia feels pretty good.
GG NO RE
GG
I grew up in Brisbane during the Bjelke-Petersen years, so I have witnessed, first hand, the damage that can be done by policies like this. Joh had a demolition company on standby, who would go in and demolish heritage buildings at midnight, so that the public had no recourse. So, take action now,before you lose your heritage. You can’t imagine how corrupt it can get if you don’t.
Kath Estarion I grew up near Melbourne (Mornington Peninsula) during the darkness of the Kennett years. Much the same story. Ol' mate Jeff sold off nearly everything in Victoria that could be sold. Left Brumby & Bracks to clean up the mountain of shit. Then along came Baillieu/Napthine. Cue the ambulance fiasco, and more property developer shenanigans like you described above. The Andrews govt has tried to redress some of the balance, but there is the small matter of COVID-19 Delta strain that Dan & co. are trying to deal with.
And ScQtty From Marketing is doing his usual, i.e. piddling while Australia burns... :/
You'll be pleased to no that demo company went poorly.
Brisbane is also god awful with so many cookie cutter apartment blocks flying up all over the place. Constantly building new apartments but there is no focus on creating a cohesion between the different suburbs or making it nice to walk through. Even worse there's urban sprawl in every direction from the CBD creating traffic jams every rush hour
Cloudland, so very wrong what happened to that place.
@@Infernus25 Heh, I went to Toowong shops the other day and the balcony of a student apartment block was so close you wouldn't even have to put effort into stepping onto someone's balcony and robbing the shite out of them. This can only end in tears. And by tears, I mean a serious hazard where a large number of wealthy people die due to construction failure- then the government and media will take notice. We're f*cked.
"Property developers are to the Liberals are what cotton developers are to the Nationals"
Thanks to Blood Water I actually get that reference! Jordies going for both heads of the snake.
Libs and nationals are one head of the snake..love to see Jordan go after the other head too one day
@@julesbrunton1728 Yep. Jordie’s strong alignment to one side is the one thing that worries me about him. His chosen side is just as broken - just in a very slightly different way.
@@friendlyjordies Adding to this point, another question. How does bothsides'ing the issue actually *help* anyone? The Coalition are actively fucking up peoples' lives right now, and the only party with a real chance of knocking them out federally is Labor.
Bothsides'ing the issue is purpose built to create voter apathy which, surprise surprise, helps the Coalition.
@@friendlyjordies 🍿 a privilege to watch this transpire 🍿
@@mrsnrub282 nah Jordie lives for this and if he could would spend all day shitting on chuds in TH-cam comment sections. I’m fucking here for it so let the man have his hour off doing his leisure activity.
Consider this:
100 years ago we used to able tell which city we were in based solely off of the local architecture.
Now it’s just concrete and glass McMansions, duplexes and soulless skyscrapers as far as the eye can see.
We’ve all been forced to join a cult of profit-taking expedient ugliness…
All that character is gone, now!
That's an international cult! Don't know if it started here in the US, but really sad to hear it's spread in Australia. These are the same developers that made ugly, prison looking schools in the 1960-70's. Then, here, someone thought it would be cool to use "portables" for classrooms, hideous, double wide trailers, usually painted beige.
How can we stop them??!!!
Here's another fun thought for you
Wonder how many local fire dept's have the high power pumps and lift capacity to go over say, 10-15 story buildings? I would imagine its some, but we just winging it with a subcontractors lowest cost internal systems and basic staircase somewhere.
great comment
those lukewarm memories are what makes life great in this country. architecture in Australia is lacking hard.
Because there isn't enough high-density housing.
You can't whinge about unaffordable housing then also whinge about property development. Choose one. "The community", as in a bunch of whiny old people and bureaucrats, shouldn't have any power to prevent property development that lowers the prices young people have to pay. This is just nonsense.
@@fatpotatoe6039 you can build housing without giving the entire process over to money hungry vultures.
@@bibsp3556 No you can't. (Not that it's a process we should even have a say in, since it's not our property.) Even if the government builds it some well-connected developer gets the contract. Do we want the shitshow of WestConnex for housing now too? You can guarantee it would be an overpriced contract in comparison to what greedy private individuals would pay, since they want to minimise their costs and purchase price. And I'd prefer money hungry vultures trying to balance costs with maximisation of sale price and speed of turnover because that means the land and materials will be used most efficiently to provide as much housing as quickly as possible, and not only that, but the mix of housing preferred by potential buyers.
@@fatpotatoe6039 Yes. The government should be doing a better job, so vote in a competent government. Youre assuming an awful lot in that comment. Maximising profits is bad when it means cutting corners.
Thanks for the shoutout @ 2:31 friendlyjordies team!
It was insane seeing what happened to canterbury in such a short space of time. The developments along the cook's river in canterbury are fucked. Not only did they make sure property viewings were done at high tide because the cooks rivier smells like the inside of clive palmer's butthole at low tide but the tradies building these things were telling people down at the canterbury hotel that there were already cracks in the foundations because these new apartments were built on swampland. But hey, gotta get as many up as they can.
As somebody that grew up in the area, can confirm.
@@merkins87 It was so depressing to see :( All of a sudden all these real estate agencies just popping up near the station.
@@eo8240 & all the main roads: Burwood rd Belmore, Beamish st Campsie, Haldon st Lakemba, all covered in apartments now & regular house prices have tripled in the last 17 years. We lived in Gladstone st, near Canterbury leagues club, sold for 550 in 04, recently went for 1.6. Short of becoming a drug dealer & magically washing all that money, I cannot fathom how we're supposed to honestly own a home in the future.
@@merkins87 Honestly after living in wentworth point for a year it looks like drug dealing is the way to go!
Saw in the window of one of the Burwood real estates a two bed apartment go for $800k. The building has cracks in it you can see from the road.
Check out how many of the "mega" councils were originally smaller councils who refused the Westconnex when the LNP decided to prioritise more roads instead of upgrading the railway. Some of those councils refused to play ball with LNP, LNP announced a mega council. They put in an interim mayor and council and all of a sudden the Westconnex gets approved and signed off. Once the Westconnex was approved, the mega council had elections. When I first moved to Sydney, I lived at Homebush, right near the station. The first seven years of LNP turned that place into high density high rise apartments. The place sucks now, traffic is hell because no planning was done on the increase of population and everyone owning a car. Glad I moved out of Sydney for good.
I live in US and started paying attention to Aus politics after Tone Abbott became PM and I couldn't believe such a ridiculous person existed. Sorry about your politicians you almost have it as bad as here lol
Nothing wrong with biting down on an onion.
Due to America being built on values of freedom and democracy, which were rather novel at the time, there's this tendency for your conservatives to 'conserve' freedom and democracy more than conservatives of traditional european/british cultures might, as they have strong historic roots in these things. There's still religious authoritarianism there, but it seems to compete with other forces in your right wing.
Our country is built on royal British law, and our conservatives conserve that. They're religious authoritarians who are heavily controlled by the crown and the Jesuits order. Their mindset is totally old fashioned and out of touch.
To top it off, our left wing has been just as mentally poisoned as every other left wing globally, by all these ridiculous 'woke' psyops and they've become a bunch of mindless dopamine junkies who also want numerous forms of technologically enhance authoritarian control.
We're cornered here. There's nothing we can do to vote our way out.
I seen him the same day he visited pedophile George pell and then flew back to the central coast for a meeting with elderly voters. No respect for laws or their outcomes
Our political landscape is also more brutal than America’s. I mean the last 15 years have just been a backstabbing game.
I was gobsmacked when you guys voted Trump in. Then it was pointed out to me we had Abbott!! Talk about humble pie.
This development at all costs frenzy is eating up the quality of life of our biggest cities. Good on you for highlighting this so well.
Quality of life is being eaten by expensive housing caused by decades of not enough development -_-
@@TheMiddlest There’s enough houses problem is most of them are immediately bought out by multinational real estate companies to flip as investment properties
@@JameZayer then there obviously isn't enough lol
It's fueled by immigration at all costs
@@schweinschwein9775 immigrants caused them not to build enough housing 2 decades ago?
That's some peak racism there
Thanks for making this. This city has changed so much in the past 20 years for the worse, I'm pretty much done.
Oh no! Shelter!
@@ivanbremer8662 👏 Thank you for this account!
@@ivanbremer8662 done👍
It's called progress
@@ljb4541 Lynette, are you saying that “progress” is meant to be ugly?
No one is saying that more buildings to MEET community NEEDS should stop at some arbitrary point in time but rather, reflecting upon what we did and had in the past should be considered.
After all, why have less when we can have more? And by this, I’m saying build upon the best aspects of our society and to achieve the highest quality possible.
What your statement is leading to, is acquiescence for lower standards of construction and amenity.
No thanks. The Public contributes sufficiently into Funds for a government to ensure equity in provisions for its citizens.
Why should the greedy few, dictate the narrative here?
Our standards in government and consequently, our society have been on a backslide for over 40 years.
For those who have been fortunate to have travelled or even bothered to search the Internet will find that the constructions of 5 to 10 years ago (at least), resemble the design and quality of the high density constructions in countries like certain Asian and Middle East communities.
🤔 …and we do most of the current “Developers” and “Builders” hail from???
It seems that you only can do what you only know… or enabled to do.
Have lived in other parts of the world and have seen new developments that are beautifully designed with the community in mind. This is non-existent in Sydney. I used to think Sydney was one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Now you only have to travel a couple of blocks from the harbour or the beach to see that it’s a bloody mess.
reminds me of the South Park episode where sodosopa is built around Kenny's house
South Park gets such bad rap for its vulgarity, that people often miss the insanely brilliant social commentary they have. Love that show so much.
The continued story of Sodosopa and the following 'additions' to it, culminating in it's inevitable abandonment is so fucking good.
But, it's kind of terrifying that it's also somewhat a reality as well.
@@BlokedAgain all satire is based on reality -- that is it's nature; that is it's purpose.
Anyone who doesn't get how brilliant South Park is, is a moron in some way, shape or form. I have a friend who hates it... intellectually he is very intelligent, he is some kind of bio medical engineer or some shit like that hahaha, but yeah in other mental aspects he is definitely lacking.
@@homestarronny Maybe hes one of those people that are academically smart but he isnt great at linking the concepts together to see a broader narrative.
@@Infernus25 Something like that yeah.
Pretty much the same deal in Vic. Property developers have more control than councils and they know their actions are illegal so they factor the fines into their operational costs. Knock down a heritage building in secret overnight and refuse to rebuild, you'll get a massive fine and then back to work building a concrete monstrosity to use as apartments.
And if something goes wrong, just declare bankruptcy and Phoenix the company the next day.
i was driving through elsternwick one day with a friend who told me to go down one street, because there was a heritage home she really liked, and wanted to show me. it was being demolished when we arrived
It's not actually very common. There's 2 examples in Melbourne that come to mind only. And the example of "heritage home in elsternwick"... well that's EXACTLY why there's an affordability crisis... the NIMBY's love that their own spawn will never be able to afford within 40km of where they grew up because the grey hair love the fact they have 4 million next eggs... and no next generation, no kids in the schools or by the shops, no families, just fkn geriatrics shuffling down the high st... how sad
My gf's father has been a construction labourer in Sydney for 30 years and attests to the level of shoddiness put into these new sky-rises..... and he's Irish.
the last part just topped it off 😂😂😂
The Irish are actually good builders for the most part, they built NYC and London in the 1800s. Like everywhere else there are plenty of dodgy ones
It’s so painfully true. I film realestate in Sydney and it’s so bleak. Basically every one of those typical unit blocks are all picked out of a catalog and built out of the cheapest materials and appliances. I’ve filmed two whole new apartment complexes a year apart and they were identical, I actually thought I had gone to the wrong one it was so similar.
Spot on. This has been my experience working for developers, particularly now as the maket is so hot, they lure purchasers into impossible contracts and sting them when they obviously can´t complete. Happy to chat.
Also developers: Don't you dare cut immigration, we need a never ending pipeline of unsuspecting souls to jam into our sky kennels.
"sky kennels" yes that's exactly what they are
This is the real answer. No one would build dog boxes if there wasn't mass migration to fill them.
Cut migration back to the 70,000 it was before Howard and Rudd jacked it to 300,000 and the problem solves itself.
@@mabamabam How about cut it to 0 . .
@@lhk9974 Let's start by getting back to normal and see what happens
We all want to pay less tax, have the best infrastructure, health care, education. We also want innovation, technology and Aussie manufacturing. That shit ain't gunna happen with a population of sub 75 million. Build 3 more cities and bring more people on in... that's how Australia will get to the top. No Pfizer- 2 reasons. 1) Slomo is a flog 2) we are only a blip on the global map when it comes to power politics ie securing vaccine supply...
Check out the Four Corners doco for how the Crown tower in Barangaroo was passed to be built
Amazing episode
Also the ABC report on burning the ghost train at Luna Park where people lost their lives; high level corruption by developers and government
I live on the central coast and what they’re doing to the Gosford waterfront is depressing af- turned a school into a tax office, a big sports oval into a weird ass kids park and started building apartment blocks galore
Also depressing that we ended up with a mega council that got into that much debt that ratepayers have to pay for their failure.
Probably not the expected comment, but I’ve always fucking hated that kind of architecture. I don’t know why but it’s always been painful to look at, it’s like a person just went “oh yeah, brutalist architecture, yeah, I can do that, totally.” But they have no creativity, but still think that they can make it look nice.
it's like a three year old in an art museum saying "I can do that" to every painting they see, but with architecture.
UTS Tower is based and redpilled. But shelter is shelter, even if new developments should be more brutalist.
Absolutely. It's terrible and soulless.
@@alexsmith6600 Incorrect. We live in a society that values respect for people and our environment.
Providing “any” type of basic shelter to help others in our community should not be a “something is better than nothing” approach.
How cheap and nasty is your opinion?!
Frankly, the same resources spent on small, concrete sarcophagi that overstuff small pockets of grassless land can EASILY provide designed spaces conducive to human amenity and health.
Slapping panels of primary colours onto soulless structures is lazy and pathetic suggestions of design 🤦🏼♀️
@@KK-og2gg LOL, you genuinely think that generic apartments are a violation of human rights.
Life in Sydney has become an absolute misery. Expensive, oppressive hell hole! Most people are stressed to the hilt becuase they have to work 5 days a week in some miserable job just to pay for a box to live in. It is bloody sick. We need a revolution and UBI as soon as possible. Life is for living, not slaving.
Union lol
Lol. Move.
Oh they’ll give you a UBi, don’t you worry! Won’t be in the way you think though
The fewer people required to get power, the easier it is to keep power. That’s the formula!
Spot on. We're turning back into a monarchy!!!!!
In Tasmania when Ray Groom was the Liberal Premier, the Liberal government reduced the number of seats in the parliament to block the Greens from being able to retain the seats they had held.
@@mozkitolife5437 Max Keiser calls it neo-feudalism
Great show
@@fightington That sounds accurate. I wouldn't know. I'm an Entomologist and couldn't care less about humans squabbling. Shanks makes it entertaining enough for me to check it out.
Too many chiefs, not enough Indians
I have given up on owning my own place, so I’m just building a temporary 6x3m box on my parents land to live on, I don’t see myself owning any property in my lifetime.
Brutal, I am a immigrant so I am proper fucked with no support. Slave to money then we die..
@@tj40454 i feel you man, i am incredibly lucky to even have parents who have land for me, i know most don't even have that opportunity, i do have migrant/non australian friends who are struggling who i help both financially and socially, i try my best to help out.
Good on you mate. Is what it is, we choose to come to have a better life here but yeah thank you parents as much as you can and never stop spreading the love and doing good.
Expatriation is the answer
It's not just Sydney, or half of Australia. This is not just a hur dur lib bad, labour good issue. This is happening across the entire western world regardless of which "side" of politics is in charge. Hope you enjoy the fun future that is coming.
its a direct consequence of increased immigration at high rates where you need to build as much as fast as possible and fit as many people into one plot, yet you cant mention that part
@@co-mq7pb Nailed it! Thanks for saying what we’re not allowed to say.
Seen Mongolia lately?
@@co-mq7pb under the Liberals Australia has the highest rate of temporary migrants to residents in the world. So it may not be a labour good libs bad issue but on that issue as with many others, shock horror the libs are worse
Zoning laws are theft.
My mum still thinks I'm pessimistic for saying that I will probably never own a house. By the time I have enough to buy one, there will probably be none left.
Or you'll only be able to afford one of those soulless apartments that fall apart after 5 years.
Try Adelaide or Perth?
I work in architecture and i agree. People building eye sores and highly congested unit blocks. May look nice and rendered but 30years from now will be the new housing projects
This. Like the ones in central London (built in the 1970s during the Thatcher era?) that ended up being a towering inferno :(
They already look shit after one year, the cheap paint starts to run
i think by 2030 all the high rise apartments will look like slums or tenements
I once worked with a guy who was basically retired but was doing exam vigilation for extra pocket money. He had worked on the Docklands redevelopment (I think he was a town planner) and he said that the regulatory body was completely toothless and that is why the developers got away with turning it into a soulless corporate jungle. This was a long time ago btw but I remember we had a few long conversations about it at the time.
I love how this was posted just before the 11am COVID-19 update for NSW. What a way to start Monday.
After finishing my degree in town planning I lost all faith in the profession after a year because of this. Please continue this investigation. Planning is so important for our future but is totally captured by the property developers.
"Once the rod is in, it begins" - Jordan Shanks 2021
Fairly sure he said rot 😂
@@HD_Heresy oh :(
I got excited
People hear what they want to hear…
Even some local councils are in on the act. On two separate occasions in the last 6 years, my grandfather had two of his neighbours put up an illegal extra storey on their house that was against council regulations on overshadowing. All the liberals on the council, plus a few independents, waved them through. We later found out one of the independents had connections to local real estate interests. When we invited the Labor and Green councillors out to look at it, they said exactly the same thing: "how did THAT get approved?"
Coming out of the M8 and onto the fly over I look at Alexandria like I looked at buildings in Lithuania.
Its scary that there's gonna be an absolute epidemic of buildings collapsing in just a few years.
There won't be
Should look at developments in metro areas too like Caloundra's Aura developed by Stockland. They are built on top of each other and some of the townhouse builds are the worst my Dad's seen. He works in the glass industry with windows & doors as a project manager, and worked with some of Sunshine Coast's top builders for 30+ years and they say Aura is a shamble of a development.
Can confirm, I'm from this area and it's absolutely atrocious.
I have a few friends that bought in that area. It's a dystopian night mare
Totally agree in my local area a primary school (public) was wanting to build an new 3 story building (there are 3 story buildings a block away from it) and they had to change it to 2 stories and have a bigger footprint because of community concern. At the same time a private K-12 school were wanting to build a new building and they bypassed council and got permission for a 4 story building in an area that has no units (and can't build them) and has a maximum height of 2 stories and there was nothing anyone could do because they bypassed council. Both of these were built at the same time and are approx 1km away from each other.
Love these morning uploads mate keep em coming
Same thing happens in Melbourne in the area I grow up in Doncaster there is one section of apartment blocks that look like prison cells the area used to be just car dealerships, some pubs and free standing 1/4 acre houses now it's a shopping centre and prison cells that after 15 years the roof collapses and kills the people inside it
That's because the golf club gone and is now all the extremel expensive new housing
@@galliman123 not talking about the golf club talking about those shocking things that all around shopping town
Someone needs to just ask Scott Morrison what he actually does to earn his salary. Simple question but I don't think he'd be able to answer it.
Ask him about human trafficking, pedos, and his corrupt Satanist Hillsong so-called church…and Freemasons
What do you do to earn YOUR salary?
@@joshwilson7573 I consult clients on painting materials, surfaces and coatings. I sometimes do labor in the form of painting for the clients and other assorted handyman type duties. Not glamorous but I do actually do something during my working hours and occasionally outside of them.
Enough to put myself through a masters in Southeast/ South Asian geopolitics
@@joshwilson7573 _my job_
The Queens Wharf project in Brisbane is being run by multiplex. It's absolutely shocking how bad they are at coordinating a jobsite that large. It used to be that thousands of dollars were lost every hour when it rained because they wouldn't waterproof the basements. Months later they found mould spores growing in all the basement levels and had to get every air scrubber in Queensland to try and keep the spore levels down. They earned the name mouldyplex pretty quickly.
A nice way to start my day off… MOAR JORDIES
MOAR DAKKA
Not really something to be happy about if only you consider what he has to talk about. His content can be so depressing
@@Lostmusicvideos but his delivery of the depressing content is perfection. The bad people doing shit things is happening either way, at least with Jordies it’s funny and entertaining aswell.
Bro it’s 8:00 PM…morning?! You’re talking like there’s places outside of America where the time is opposite or some nonsense, lol.
@@Lostmusicvideos I mean that's the way we are heading so might as well bring it to the attention of his audience.
Now you just have me getting all nostalgic over cheese tv before school and steam train rides to the blue mountains as a kid... makes you realise how much we have changed
This was a good video to watch after my job interview
At multiplex?
@@Nate-bg7jd rural central Queensland
How did it go
I live in Balmain and can confirm the Balmain mum stereotype is 100% accurate
As a 37 yo, under-employed jobseeker, living in the locked-up blue mountains, the dream of owning my own little forever place seems impossible, and the thought of never having my own place is both terrifying, and depressing. Why even try to bother when the prize is so unattainable?
Gotta work your fingers to the bone, over a lifetime, just to afford a place you can’t barely enjoy, as your too busy working.
No hope for the little guy, may end up living in a cave, down the bush.
I’m 44 and I’ve given up any hope of ever owning anything. It seems increasingly likely that most of us are never going to get to retire. It makes you wonder what the point of it all is?
Cry me a river.
Join the defence force, do time away, save a deposit in 6 months. Buy a property NOT in Sydney, rent it out, wait a few years, use equity to buy another place, rent it out, rinse and repeat.
It’s a proven formula
@@callumsmith338 um, first you must qualify to enter the defence force, but it’s not for everybody, and what’s the endgame? Be sent over to Afghanistan only to perhaps return? Help the police control citizens in all major cities, owning a home has never been so impossibly hard in Australia.
It is NOT easy to claw ones way out of poverty.
@@Icipher353 I know exactly how you feel, it’s the worst feeling in the world, I can’t even afford to buy a cheap, isolated, rural place. Hang in there mate😊
53 year old unemployed female jobseeker here. I feel your pain.
Be keen to see your take on the NSW Police Commissioner taking home $670k annually.
Not that high considering the total revenue those pricks receive annually just from infringements... it's a very very big business ;)
Every one of Jordan's videos makes me less and less sure it was a good idea for my family to move from Argentina, as it appears we're headed in that direction anyway...
I give you good luck my friend gladys sucks!
@@ax2033.
To be honest, I don't even live in New South Wales, but I'm _still_ scared for this country's future.
yeahhh our country is a mess huh... new zealand would’ve been a safer bet 💀
You will never go back you can stick that perspective right up your ass and hit the first flight going back there if thats how you really feel
@@neromax4424 bit unnecessary there, can't blame him, no need to jump down his throat.
Heh as someone whom lived in the same street as mascot towers I had a good laugh every time you showed it , my neighbour was an engineer and he said these apartments are designed to only last 20 years and the law changed that the developer is only responsible for the building 24 months after construction and a lot of shell companies are used for insurance and parts so when SHTF it’s the Australian tax payer that has to bail out the boomer investors and those foolish enough to buy these apartments
I really encourage you to read Leviathan: The Unauthorised Biography of Sydney. You are covering very old well stomped ground here which both parties have walked since the inception of Sydney.
Meanwhile in Melbourne it's 150 shades of Grey, most of the year Grey sky's makes your showroom floor Silver Cars look grey on a grey freeway, with grey over passes, and the CBD is Greys too. Only diffence is they all get blue lights shining on them come dark, got some street art? World comes to see it? NOT ANYMORE CONCRETE SHADE OF GREY! it's like they want us to be bleak. Doesn't make the Black fashion uniform of Melbourne "POP" anymore that's just the background
To be fair urban sprawl isn’t the answer either and like it or not apartments are significantly cheaper than houses in australia capital cities right now. Councils just need to enforce better design standards and clean out the corrupt rodents
Yea agreed, apartments are certainly preferable to destroying surrounding natural environments. They also help reduce congestion if public transport is viable nearby as opposed to surburbs where everyone wants to drive to and from
I know this bloke who lives up central coast way who saw around 2017ish that the area was being turned into what he dubbed "The next Sydney suburb: Cloneville" and decided in the interest of closure and archival to go around and photograph every nook and cranny of the area before it was destroyed forever. come 2021, 20,000+ photos later and he's still going.
Randwick council has done a good job at managing development from what I’ve see : rejecting obscene proposal in little bay, the Newmarket development is the best of its kind that I’ve seen. And guess what… it’s a labour council.
One of these shitstains have just been approved next to where I live. Construction is temporarily on hold due to the pandemic. Labor has generally been better at restricting this shit but I want to see more done overall. Praying for a turnaround next election.
What makes the Newmarket development the best?
Ughh they're doing this here in Wollongong. Packing in hideous huge apartment buildings anywhere they can possibly squeeze them. There's one a few houses down from me and it's been non-stop jackhammering and grinding for the last year. There's already no parking within blocks of the hospital, yet they're putting up a new apartment complex on the same block as the hospital.
i would be fine with a singapore style model of housing if we could get affordable public housing that is sold at below market rates to occupiers
ahahahahaha another pipe dream
I used to live in Singapore. I wouldn't be fine with the HDB housing they've got there. Man's not meant to live in a shoebox in a tower.
@@MrSmith-ve6yo Agree. Lived in Singapore for a few years and I don’t fancy living in a shoebox anymore.
I'm an Australian living in a HDB right now. Neighbours make a huge difference (I'm the only foreigner on the block). Definitely don't plan on living here forever but I wouldn't call it an unpleasant experience for the time being.
Nope nope nope nope nope.
Haven’t lived there but spent some time in the lorongs.
Only type of place I’d like there is an old colonial house ready to be demolished.
Or perenakan terrace. Nice beauty salons there
So, the rental we're in, in a small town in rural NSW, is falling apart, it's only 3 years old but it was done using the cheapest shit available, as quickly as possible. The woman who owns it lives in Sydney and has numerous new build duplex rentals in my town, raking in a cool $400 a month from each house.
She's absentee and we don't really have any issues with the real estate etc, they're pretty good in terms of not being shit...but from talking to neighbours and other people in her properties, we've realized she has a few crafty tricks up her sleeve to get that extra cash in whilst doing the bare minimum.
Trick number one: When the property is built and inspected, have two large water tanks in the garden, as it's a requirement for new builds to have them (still visible in the real estate photos). But, when your tenants turn up, there's no water tanks? That's because you're a crafty little slimeball, and instead of providing a drought prone area with much needed rainwater tanks, you take those tanks to your next property development until they tick the box, then move them on again.
Trick number two: All your properties are duplexes with A and B sides...yet they never come up as duplexes on anything, just the one house. This may be innocent as I'm ignorant of property law but it seems like some kind of tax dodge.
Also, don't bother putting soil down for the lawn, use road grit, turf over it and then get up your renters for not maintaining it when it all dies.
Fuck I hate these people.
Also, as an ecologist, a nod to the Scaup joke...
Where?
Best video ever, 10/10 would do
It's all over the place sadly. I remember a few years back visiting surfers paradise a pink sky rise apartment had cracked concrete with exposed reo right next to the beach. The Coffs Harbour police station/court house, one part looks like a day care centre with the coloured wall, million dollar windows facing a $50 view and petrol station, the front looks like a grand piano. Wasted 73 million dollars doing it
This was one of Bob Carr's passions. He often spoke of having to drive past those dreadful developments along ANZAC parade. Maybe interview him, it's one of his passions. He might have some inside information. Oh, just endure his compulsory quotes from Abraham Lincoln, he just does that.
LendLease bought up pretty much ALL of Darling Harbor, knocked the old beautiful buildings down, then dumped the ugliest buildings imaginable. The convention Centre looks like a mesh error from Trainz Railroad Simulator 2009.
Can anyone mention one aspect of life that improved in Australian cities since the year 2000?
Ability to work from home in more jobs
The government is doing more than ever for our own safety? Lucky us
Ummmm ... what about the e .... nuh, hang on ..... Oh there was the .... er .... hmmm ... nup.
@@tinto278 true that
Restaurants are better and having Google maps is way better than the Sydways/ Melways ever was...
in the wollondilly LGA the motto is " RURAL LIVING" but are developing sub divisions with blocks of land the size of hankerchiefs so they have to build taller buildings. the roads are so narrow even the garbage trucks have difficulty if a car is parked in the street and the roads in the area have been deemed the worst in the state. there is no hospital, the high school has been redone but will soon reach capacity and the public transport is, well, severely lacking. a train every 2 hours
Jordan: “THE LIBERAL GOVERNMENT!!!”
Me: HE’S BRINGING IT BACK!!
You got to put "free standing" in quotation marks because I would barely consider those cubes that are built right up the property line, where every window points at the neighbor's version of that window and so close together you could lean out any said window and lick your neighbor's ear, as "free standing". They're basically townhouses with extra steps. (the extra step being the 1 step it takes to walk between those two "free standing" houses).
How do we solve the solution of housing without building higher density dwellings?
I personally hate living in an apartment in Sydney but it is not by choice when detached houses are so damn out of reach for my generation (millennials) we have to either live closer to the CBD in apartment complexes or live far out west in woop woop where your commute is 1.5 hrs + a day, tolls etc.
If we do not build enough dwellings then house prices would sky rocket further and put pressure on renters as well as there would be a lack of stock in the market to even rent in.
We have stopped migration thus far due to COVID but once borders open up again in a very long time I can guarantee you property prices will further go up when there is a lack of supply in the market and everyone is fighting for a home to live in.
There is obviously no simple solution to this problem but would love to hear people's thoughts/ ideas...
Deport Labor voters to New Zealand
Half the battle is getting people out of cars and building functional public transport, so higher density suburbs on the outskirts of the city make sense and don't create a traffic hellscape. Zoning also needs to change so that shops can be built within these communuities, close enough to walk to.
Another thing to note is that buildings taller than about 5 floors start costing significantly more money to build per apartment, and only make sense because the top floors can sell views to rich people. Actual density comes from streets of duplexes and row houses, not a couple giant glass, steel and concrete monoliths surrounded by single family homes.
First thing I'd suggest is address people/companies owning and leasing multiple properties. A single entity owning multiple properties takes houses out of the buyers market and drives up house prices due to lack of availability, which also steers people towards renting and drives up that market too. If you disincentivise people owning multiple properties then houses will be released to the public, so more people can outright own a home and prices go down due to increased availability. Renting prices might fall slightly too, due to the demand for rent falling.
I'm spitballing here obviously but you would only get penalised on, say, the third or fourth property and above. That would allow people to have a house, a renting property, and/or a holiday home without hitting the limit. I think if you're affluent enough to afford more than that, you're affluent enough to adequately compensate the public for taking houses out of the market.
Not sure HOW exactly it should be addressed. I do have some ideas but I can see the flaws in them - raising taxes on the extra properties might not be enough disincentive, and making it outright illegal would be far too harsh. But in general, this would be where I would think to start addressing housing availability issues.
@@DarthVella Nah just abolish zoning laws and trick the Chinese into building a bunch of apartments
This is something I think about all the time. Its apart of the Sydney psyche. If anyone has any good reading on the subject would love a recommendation.
I had 2 friends planning to move into 2 different apartments in the inner west around the same time 3 yrs ago. Due to cracks in both buildings they were left in the lurch, having provided notice of termination to their old landlord and nowhere to move into.
Love this, always good for a Monday Morning!
It's exactly the same here in Victoria under Labor. For example, when the severe lockdown was re-introduced Parliament was not allowed to debate, all shops closed etc. BUT the good old construction industry carried on constructing. Our government has managed to spend $BN 144 in the past 6 years on construction projects, mainly road, at a time when all road construction should basically be terminated, and AT THE SAME TIME became the first (only) state government to put a tax on electric vehicles. Funny - the old petrol "usage" tax was/is levied at a federal level but the fact that electric vehicles don't pay that tax was the justification for Labor's new anti-green tax. That $144BN is unprecedented in real terms and is disguised because liabilities are not reported on the state government's accounts - bypassing global accounting standards.
Literally watching this as I sit in hotel quarantine from moving to Perth lol I got out just in time didn’t I? Lol
Welcome to WA man haha. The home of the best State Gov in Aus and a premier with 90%+ popularity.
I’m in hotel quarantine in Gold Coast! I feel you!
Ha I'm that ex con! Thanks for the shout out dogg
Complaining is easy. But what exactly are the alternatives though?
1) Build single McMansion dwellings absolutely everywhere so Sydney looks like Los Angeles with 100km+ of car-dependent urban sprawl and highways in every direction that isn't water or mountains? Imagine the environmental damage, not only from the carbon pollution of massive car dependence, but also removal of native vegetation, building new infrastructure and the poor energy efficiency of single dwelling McMansion urban sprawl. How does urban sprawl go with water usage on the green lawns? Bushfires?
2) Stop building housing all together so only the ultra rich can live there in their untouched low density suburbs? Also, local communities have a vested interest in stopping housing development to increase their local house prices (for example Byron Bay, Noosa, Eastern Sydney). How do you stop that type of corruption? Maybe the poor can live 12 to a house? Just hope there isn't a pandemic as wouldn't end up well ...
Woosh. I think this topic is way over your head. Your arguments are fallacious too.
@@godamid4889 Please outline the fallacy then? Do you deny climate change?
@@michaelpearen9778 the fallacy is that you present an either or scenario of your choosing, constrained to fit your narrative.
The reality is that there are more than your two options, and choosing neither of them doesn't represent climate denial.
This is a legit comment. The replies are a bit silly... you are literally watching a video that is fitting a biased narrative in the first instanve
Thing is, having a freestanding house IS a luxury in a city. Duplexes and townhouses are the way to go, it worked in Europe for centuries, and it looks nice, it's nice to live in... When it's not built for bottom dollar with no regard for livability or longevity.
These concrete boxes are popping up all over Wollongong now too..
Same in umina :(
good luck fellas, i pray that you don’t end up looking like wolli creek 💀
This is where us, the peasants will live whilst the upper-class can have all the good stuff.
@@rageoval8997 Several hundred plebs > one door in/out.
Easy to "keep safe".
@@rageoval8997 very few of us will be living in those expensive 1 bedroom cardboard investment properties. So many new apartments in Sydney are empty because they're too small for families, too expensive for singles and investors would rather skip out on agent fees and flip it in 10 years for a profit.
Watching this made me think of a bunch of pollies with a big fan blowing cash around and then acting delightfully surprised when some of it lands in a basket hanging around their necks.
It's a great shame. I'm an architecture student in Sydney and it seems like we have been losing out to developers for a while now due to price competition, goes to show how unappreciated the profession is and how the city gets screwed from letting developer put up generic crap for the sake of pure profit.
Wrong pal. I'm an architect. Blame the prescriptive planning controls, the extreme fire engineering solutions (driven by insurers with PI policies) are the actual reasons
@@nmciw Is it really? My mentors have always taught me that restrictions and controls like the ones you have mentioned should be viewed as opportunities. Isn't that what architecture boils down too? I honestly would like to know more of your insights as a practising architect to this issue. Especially here in Sydney, all the teaching architects and lecturers I've meet suggested that project developer were our competitors. Also supporting my initial comment, go out 30 minutes west from the city and what do you find? Dozens and dozens of estate projects by developers where you have thousands of generic homes lined up to one another.
@@Infinite_Ouroboros there's certainly opportunity to do better, and there are some exemplar projects out there. But yep, what I am saying is correct.
Planning controls dictate height, setbacks, uses et al. In Melbourne, we also have BADS which has been good for some elements, and horrendous for others. Ie in a 1 bed apartment you must provide frontage to the living and bedroom. Hello 2.8m wide bedroom a 2.8m wide living room next to it. I'd personally rather have a 5.6m wide living room with a borrowed light bedroom, (it's a 1 bedders after all, so not like you need privacy from guests). So any innovative typologies are rejected because they don't meet the prescriptive criteria... Then you get a fire engineer/ surveyor involved- no combustible cladding (now, you can't even use timber finishes externally as they are deemed fire sources- hello metal look timber) so not many cladding systems available anymore... Hello concrete... then they Say "windows are too close together, fire can jump between apartments, so make them smaller and don't let them open"... then the final nail in the coffin- must be concrete to achieve the fire ratings...
Sorry, not to be jaded, there's still lots of great projects out there into the future... but I honestly think a lot of developers would do better by their sites if they were allowed to do so without a 2 year legal bill trying to justify what they are doing to a system that prefers conformance
@@nmciw @nmciw Thanks, that was very insightful. So would you say our profession is dying or becoming obsolete, because everything is being standardised and restricted to the point where it's not worth fighting against. Architects dont get paid well considering the workload and im honestly struggling find an answer that we can do to resist conformality to the government. Is another movement due for our profession?
@@Infinite_Ouroboros that's the age old question. Huge firm = average work on fantastic projects... small firm = more interesting work but not working on notable jobs. Architecture at an academic level creates a feedback loop- arch students get disenchanted with "the real world" go back and become lecturers where it's "fun"... get students excited about theoretical design... go out, practise, get disenchanted, teach even less realistic outcomes.
But srsly, architecture is great. There are opportunities everywhere and people always strive for the dream house, the sexy new office, the cool hotel... I am not jaded, I love it, but I also enjoy the other components of my job that aren't drawing... research , BD, pitching, coordinating construction challenges, internal design crits and presentations... It's really rewarding- hence too many damn kids do it at uni, leading to lower wages.
If you're still studying you've got heaps of years ahead. Do architecture for 10 years... change to a new career... go back to arch... you've got like 5 x 10 year windows to enjoy work. Try it out, you'll be impressed!!
Totally agree but both the LNP and Labor have policies that encourage high immigration rates and these people have to go somewhere, this is a symptom not the problem.
apartments and townhouses in city's make a whole lot more sense in cities, that given i wish they wouldnt look & feel so fucking dead.
Property developers are scum for sure.
But have a look into the missing middle. It's all the small housing and walk able cities instead of only having either high rises or huge detached houses in suburbia.
Sydney was gone 10 years ago when I went there for a 4 day weekend, but had enough after 2 days and bought an extra plane ticket to have the rest of my holiday back in Melbourne.
Melbourne is shit too
Hey Jordan, you would be too young to remember how in the lead up to a state election years ago Bob Carr came campaigning in my electorate of Bathurst - no forced amalgamations of councils. So I manned the polling booths with my union comrades handing out Labor how to votes. Even had an application to join Labour, still got it. FMD within 6 months of election my council (Evans) was amalgamated into Bathurst. In a short period of time the safe Labour seat of Bathurst since Chifley was delivered to odious hands of the Nationals as it has ever since. Safe National seat of Orange went to Farmers Shooters Fishers based on this sentiment. Guess who I joined? Love hearing your perspective BTW even when I don't agree. Cheers
Hmm. On one of my darker more conspiracy theory accepting lockdown days, it did occurr to me how convenient it would be for developers if all those community parks are sitting empty and unuseable if lockdowns extend for too long.
Dictator dan is closing the playgrounds for this very reason. The curfew is so that developers can sneakily erect a skyscraper overnight.
@@alexsmith6600 No it's not. It's to stop idiots from spreading Covid19.
@@simoncrooke1644 the only people that care about covid anymore are upper-middle drug addicts and brain-washed post-slaves.
@@simoncrooke1644 And the Sydney lockdown isn't trying to do the same thing?!?
@@simoncrooke1644 You don't actually believe this, do you? All govt. are crooks along with their MSM dogs. Anything they say about corona must responsibly tossed out the window because they're a pack of liars.
my old hometown had to merge with a council near them. That bigger council sold off everything that the smaller council owned, including the town doctor's house, so he had to move. They took all of the funds from the small town, put rates up and don't do anything in terms of upgrades to the roads because the city the bigger council are in, have spent it all in their city. While the smaller town are just being hung up to dry and forgotten about.
Some developers around melbourne are getting up to some pretty shifty stuff, look into the new laws around developers of low income housing, they're making a killing after their 5 years are up.
Towers in the middle of suburbia - Box Hill & Glen Waverley. Chinese money?
@@dmeritt3425 It's not a race thing, developers get a portion of the money to construct low income housing back from the government, this in and of itself wouldn't or shouldn't be a problem, however developers are building relatively inexpensive, two or three story homes, renting them out for the obligated 5 years then selling them immediately for far more than they are worth due to the housing bubble, and with a not insignificant portion of the construction cost and rent paid for with your tax dollar going directly into their bank account, we have privatised public housing and the people developing these huge packed in apartment complexes for "low income housing" are essentially pocketing everyone's tax by continually building one complex after another then selling them to hard working middle class australians with an absurd increase in price.
Millionaires are milking a system designed to help the poor and it's disgusting.
Greg Hunt literally did this with urban renewal. Using the community agency I was working at (Good Shepherd). Lot of council members politicking to be Hunt's dux. Then the hipsters took over (I was running their social media for their renewal project, on top of chairing committee meetings) and just... it runs deep, open secrets, town gossip, that sort of thing
Singapore: Creates housing developments to advance from a third world to first world nation.
Sydney: mega stonks
@@tinto278 yes and no. Probably not worth getting into an argument about that but I can understand where you're coming from. Modern Singapore is very, very influenced by what you've said above, but I wouldn't say they're 'controlled' in the same sense that Australia's governments is by the mining and construction industry. It'd be very unlikely to find a politician in Singapore with any of these companies in their portfolio. It's more of a GDP powermove by the government that's gone a bit too far.
Should look into multiplex defence maintenance. They changed the company name to johnson controls but its still multiplex. I worked for them for quite a while and OMG the waste of money in any thing defence defies belief.
I once calculated the cost to replace single a toilet roll holder in a bathroom that doesn't even get used at the Richmond RAAF base. $1200... and that was probably conservative.
lockdown is the perfect time for WARHAM...
COME ON Y'ALL SHOUT IT OUT WITH ME "WHEN'S WARHAM ???" GIVE US THE CONTENT WE WANT JORDIE , PENNY SAID YOURE GOOD FOR IT...
Waaaaagh
I'm actually studying to do the devils work right now, and considering one of my current modules is building sustainability the timing of this is uncanny. However, You're bang on with the amalgamations, its less minds to convince, pressure, intimidate... work smarter not harder right? Why go to 5 ponds when you can catch the same amount of fish in 1. I wouldn't say inaction is the solution though, otherwise we will be at a point where architectural expression is lost, same as the soviet housing, except we will be sheltering people from 45-50 degree heatwaves.
Food for thought though, what if there was a formula that was something like: for every 100m2 of development, 10m2 must be developed as public parks or recreational areas, fully accessible by the public, within a 5km radius.
Prevents the runaway effect of developing property just for financial gain, retains natural elements and is socially sustainable, while also ensuring that Bruz doesn't Pork Barrel and stock pile parks in elite areas.
Full Disclosure: after watching 600 friendlyjordies videos, I still am unclear as to the definition of Pork Barreling, but that won't stop me throwing it round 🤣
You’re scaring me Jordy! Exactly how old are you? I’m 52 and have only just discovered how corrupt and lame local government are in their dealings!!!!
Reminds me of the new-builds in England, I went to Blackpool for a holiday and literally every building was either a rundown council estate or a soulless, copy-pasted, cheaply built red new-build. Reflects the current state of the UK today. Cost of living crisis, broken politics and soulless homes that cost £1000 a month to rent. Love Ingerland innit.
Hopefully the new-build disease doesn't spread into Scotland...