How local councils block new unit blocks

Sue is back from Europe – Huzzah! And that means not just a return of her dulcet tones but an injection of common sense into the proceedings.  And those proceedings are a discussion about the “missing middle” – low to medium rise apartment blocks and how some councils have managed to keep them out of their suburbs.

We look at the cute and occasionally evil tactics that home buyers resort to, in order to get to the head of the queue to purchase the house of their dreams.

We look at how efforts to curb the rampant spread of Airbnb and other short-term holiday lets have fared in cities that have brought in draconian laws.

And we wonder if game theory might help us to solve the housing crisis (as discussed on the Flat Chat website). 

That’s all right here in the 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.