Two towers - from just fine to way too fancy

FLAT CHAT WRAP

This week we look at two apartment blocks that it’s pretty safe to say are at the opposite ends of the social spectrum.

The first is a Housing Commission block that has just won the NSW Premier’s architecture award, stimulating serious high-rise envy and which could be an antidote to Nimbyism as well as the new form of property selfishness, ANTE …“And Not There Either”. (We call it ANOTE in the podcast, but, hey, it’s new to us too!)

At the other end of the scale, there’s the block being built in Brisbane which is six levels of whole-floor apartments that allow you to park your car next to your home.

Seriously. You drive into the parking bay, the lift takes the car up to your floor and you drive the vehicle into a glass-walled garage that allows you to drool over it from the comfort of the adjoining pad.

And let’s face it, if you can afford $9million for a flat in Brissie, your car is likely to be pretty drool-worthy.

We have an animated chat about whether Housing Commission tenants should be allowed to put their subsidised apartments on Airbnb (or similar holiday rental websites).

And we discuss how dubious, non-academic surveys are of little value except to generate clickbait stories to promote the purveyors of “lies, damned lies and statistics”.

That’s all in this week’s Flat Chat Wrap.

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Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai.
Find out more about Sue Williams and Jimmy Thomson on their websites.