Terry Connor at his Department of Housing accommodation in Miller, South Western Sydney. Photo: Wolter Peeters Sydney's property boom has been disastrous for low income earners with a new study showing less than 1 per cent of private rental properties in the city are affordable for welfare recipients.

More senate enquiry stuff

Ah! We could have put in a submission if I'd seen this TWO WEEKS AGO! Gah!

more boom and bust stuff from SMH - N.B. Senate Enquiry into affordable housing: "But housing affordability isn't just a problem for middle-class Australia. Concern about a lack of affordable housing has prompted a Senate inquiry - due to report in June - on the regimes of incentives, planning and funding that currently affect the supply of affordable housing for the country's most vulnerable and less well-off."

The Economy Widening gap: Housing prices have outpaced wage growth over the past 12 months. Photo: Fiona Morris The $4 trillion Australian housing market is now overvalued by at least 10 per cent. Every day, valuations get more stretched. Indeed, Australia is just months away from having the most expensive residential property market in history.

At one level, this is a community story about a development application for a childcare centre on Crown land in the inner-Sydney suburb of Paddington. On another, it's a story about how state authorities and corporate regulators failed residents and local councillors who struggled to hold politicians, developers and public servants accountable for dealings with publicly owned open space.

A podcast by Julie Guthman about alternative food movement in the US and it's anglocentrism. I've not yet listened to it

Interesting research out of ANU on strategies for protecting the existing "local food" regions in Australia.

Did we know that Drones are like Real Estate agents technology of choice? "We're not selling $150,000 homes with this technology," said Matthew Leone, the director of web marketing and chief drone master for Halstead. "Multimillion-dollar homes demand Madison Avenue marketing and advertising, not Main Street."

A little bit late!!! :)

Sorry. What I meant to say is this is an argument about how the US has run out of counter-cultures to co-opt for corporate purposes and capitalism may eat itself because the next generation is going to be so happy with capitalism they will not invent a counter culture either. CRAZY

Different kinds of issues at different times of day

VIA Clover Moore's Facebook Page Development projects for community consultation in Green Square.

Elizabeth Farrelly on cycling. Brilliant. We should get her in to talk.

Interesting lecture coming out of the Rachel Carson Centre!

Barangaroo "will dominate our skyline and shape our most significant public space for decades to come. It is funded by one of our richest citizens and occupies public land. For it to be anything other than absorbingly lovely, enchanting to explore and ultra-green is simply a disgrace."