{"id":162608,"date":"2025-09-23T04:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T04:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/162608\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T04:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T04:33:08","slug":"left-split-as-inner-west-yimbys-and-nimbys-debate-high-density-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/162608\/","title":{"rendered":"Left split as Inner West YIMBYs and NIMBYs debate high density plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tempers started to fray just four speeches into a marathon town hall meeting to debate Australia\u2019s housing future, as residents of Sydney\u2019s inner west began to suspect the fix was in.<\/p>\n<p>Inner West Council had gathered on Monday evening to consider the Fairer Future plan for 30,000 new homes in the area over the next 15 years, but despite a community consultation suggesting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/politics\/greens-housing-demands-would-mean-40-storey-blocks-20250922-p5mwxa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">most were opposed to high density<\/a>, speakers lined up one by one to praise the plan.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tempers started to fray just four speeches into a marathon town hall meeting to debate Australia\u2019s housing future,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[64,63,75,128],"class_list":["post-162608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}