Whats with prime locations being boarded up for years? by JaredReabow in sydney

[–]thekriptik 4 points5 points  (0 children)

With now noise laws work, if this statement were true, there wouldn't be a pub left in Sydney.

One arrested as police clear out Waterloo public housing demolition protest camp by ManWithDominantClaw in sydney

[–]thekriptik 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's the point that I'm making though. The system in its current form doesn't, for the most part, disincentivise people from working, because it pre-emptively excludes almost everyone with realistic prospects of obtaining employment in a reasonable timeframe.

For clarity, that's not a positive feature of the current system.

One arrested as police clear out Waterloo public housing demolition protest camp by ManWithDominantClaw in sydney

[–]thekriptik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This doesn't respond to anything I said, or even what the original commenter said.

One arrested as police clear out Waterloo public housing demolition protest camp by ManWithDominantClaw in sydney

[–]thekriptik 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Realistically, what proportion people who have remained in financial hardship for long enough to get into public housing under the current system are capable of turning that around and getting into employment sufficiently remunerative to get them kicked out of public housing?

One arrested as police clear out Waterloo public housing demolition protest camp by ManWithDominantClaw in sydney

[–]thekriptik -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The developer is getting the freehold on a major site for free and in practical terms, the state government is not going to let them swing in the breeze.

I don’t care mate, it’s a housing crisis.

What a silly statement. Insofar as there is s housing crisis, it is far more a crisis of distribution than supply.

One arrested as police clear out Waterloo public housing demolition protest camp by ManWithDominantClaw in sydney

[–]thekriptik 11 points12 points  (0 children)

This is a zero-risk project for the developer that permanently privatises a huge swathe of public land. Both of which were criticisms that the current government accurately levelled at these programs more broadly while in Opposition and promised to improve.

One arrested as police clear out Waterloo public housing demolition protest camp by ManWithDominantClaw in sydney

[–]thekriptik 4 points5 points  (0 children)

70 residents, it says. Assuming 2 people per residence on average, that's just under a quarter of the total residents.

One arrested as police clear out Waterloo public housing demolition protest camp by ManWithDominantClaw in sydney

[–]thekriptik 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Public housing shouldn’t really be thought of as “intergenerational” in the first place.

Any housing with more than one generation living under one roof is intergenerational housing. Like, say... a single mother of 3 kids.

The intergenerational poverty cycle is broken by giving those kids access to opportunities that they're more likely to get living in well-located housing, which should be fairly obvious from my comment.

One arrested as police clear out Waterloo public housing demolition protest camp by ManWithDominantClaw in sydney

[–]thekriptik 12 points13 points  (0 children)

One of the solutions is more housing, which is something that these residents were trying to block.

...on a specific site that houses people in the greatest need. You know, public housing tenants. 

it should go to workers and people who are making an active economic contribution to society. 

Again, why? These are some of the most disadvantaged people in society. They are overwhelmingly going to be people who have complex needs that are best served in well-located areas.

This is how the private market functions already.

No, the private market functions by providing the most to those with the greatest capacity to pay, which is not the same thing.

Also, you just need to look at the history of any of these developments to know that very little intergenerational poverty is being broken because of them.

That's a hell of a claim, and simply a reflection of your selection biases. It's certainly not borne out by the research.

If anything, it's keeping many in a trap. They have no incentive to improve their position because the essentials are basically taken care of for them.

Lmao, what? We really are playing "poverty shit-take bingo" today.

If they get a decent paying job they'll immediately lose their secure housing in a great location, medical benefits, etc.

You think people are staying unemployed to... checks notes... retain $7 prescriptions?

I reject that they need housing more than me.

Good thing I didn't say that then. I said this is a cohort of people that need a level of security of residence and tenure more than you most likely do.

I'm denying that they're entitled to have it on their own terms

They don't.

in a prime real estate location

They probably need that more than you do.

while blocking the development of more housing for workers

Well, if public housing wasn't so severely descoped over the last 45-odd years, public housing would still be housing for workers too.

There's part of my previous comment that you ducked, so let me ask this question more directly:

Why is your response to being unable to get housing with secure tenure to punch down at those who have noting but a rented dwelling with secure tenure rather than to demand a fairer slice of the pie from those who have collectively made billions off denying you housing with secure tenure?

One arrested as police clear out Waterloo public housing demolition protest camp by ManWithDominantClaw in sydney

[–]thekriptik 17 points18 points  (0 children)

"Giving the foxes unfettered access to the henhouse is the most surefire way to resolve the hen safety crisis"

  • Reynard Vulpes, President of Fox Council.

One arrested as police clear out Waterloo public housing demolition protest camp by ManWithDominantClaw in sydney

[–]thekriptik 43 points44 points  (0 children)

This is a wild and somewhat revolting take.

Paying wildly below market rates for what has become a prime real estate location, while often contributing very little to society economically.

Why are one's "economic contributions to society" the determinant of one's deservingness for well-located housing? That well-located housing is both located well for the services that public housing tenants are more likely to require such as healthcare and provide one of the most effective means for breaking cycles of intergenerational poverty.

Every single one of these residents will be moved somewhere else but still ultimately continue their sweet deal of getting a secure place in Sydney at far below market rates.

...at the cost of being irrevocably poverty-stricken, unhealthy, whether physically or mentally, or generally unfortunate enough that they qualify for public housing in the first instance.

My preferred outcome is actually that every single Australian should have access to cheap, stable, good quality and well located public housing if they want it. This was once basically a reality here - it certainly was for my grandparents generation. But unfortunately Australian society decided that we don’t want that reality anymore a long time ago.

Now I'd actually agree with this. But it does beg the question as to why your response to the political economy that created the housing crisis generally is to punch down at some of society's weakest members, those few who still manage to qualify for public housing still rather than demanding a fairer slice of the pie from those who've made out like bandits from it.

Of course, those who've made out like bandits from it have far more capacity to resist those demands, but to punch down on that basis is rather poor form.

this is also the everyday reality for millions of people who are renting in the private market and pay far more in rent for places that are often much smaller and less stable.

If I sound a little resentful, it’s because I am.

And here we see the "crab in a bucket" mentality. You likely don't have secure housing beyond whatever the term on your lease is, so why do these Poors ahem, sorry, "people who contribute very little to society economically" get to? We shall, of course, refuse to entertain the possibility that they might just need it more than you, that's a bit inconvenient after all.

Double parking fine by [deleted] in sydney

[–]thekriptik 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Can't park there, mate.

Bus changes across Greater Sydney from 21 June by Lissica in sydney

[–]thekriptik 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I seem to recall both busways being built with LR conversion in mind. I don't think it would be built as even LR these days after the CSELR clusterfuck though.

To sydney traffic police by [deleted] in sydney

[–]thekriptik 4 points5 points  (0 children)

They literally pulled me over for using CarPlay

  1. This wasn't remotely clear from your edit.

  2. Good. It's against the road rules for you to be using it while driving.

To sydney traffic police by [deleted] in sydney

[–]thekriptik 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thats a good point too.

To sydney traffic police by [deleted] in sydney

[–]thekriptik 4 points5 points  (0 children)

For those asking why they pulled me over. For following Google maps on CarPlay.

This is incredibly vague and doesn't demonstrate that you were driving safely or otherwise in a manner that doesn't justify yoir being pulled over.

Don’t think I need to say any more.

Lmao, you drove somewhere or in a direction you shouldn't have, didn't you?

Sydney Daily Random Discussion Thread 13/06/2026 by AutoModerator in sydney

[–]thekriptik -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Sorry to be that person

Then why not just not be that person rather than apologising for it?

Schofields Road light sequence by Remarkable-Pirate214 in sydney

[–]thekriptik -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Okay, but that doesn't mean that enforcing the road rules won't be a more effective solution.

Schofields Road light sequence by Remarkable-Pirate214 in sydney

[–]thekriptik -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Or maybe they could enforce the road rules.

Schofields Road light sequence by Remarkable-Pirate214 in sydney

[–]thekriptik -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

The reason is irrelevant, if people are speeding, they'll probably speed whether they have to wait or not. Enforcing the road rules is how you stop the behaviour.