Why you’re wrong about apartments - can higher density solve the housing crisis? | ABC Australia

Описание: The Australian Dream is the belief that the pinnacle of life is buying a house.

But the country’s housing crisis is quickly making the pursuit of owning a home near impossible for young people like Sharath Mahendran - the YouTuber behind the channel Building Beautifully.

So why are Australian cities filled with detached homes when places like Singapore, Hong Kong and Seoul get by fine with high density housing?

With the property market rising and the cost of living biting, is the solution to housing affordability as simple as building up and reinventing apartments?

0:00 Suburban living downsides
0:25 Housing unaffordability numbers
1:44 How zoning keeps prices high
2:35 Bigger houses aren’t better
3:35 Time to build up!
4:05 Reinventing apartment living
4:53 Raising families in apartments
6:33 Convenience over space
7:12 Solving the housing crisis

Credits:
Sharath Mahendran – Writer/Presenter

Dan Ilic – Writer/Executive Producer

Richard Teague – Sound

Nathan Earl – Director/Producer

Chloe Angelo – DOP/Editor

Synthura Sandrasegaran – Motion Graphics

Daniel Ahern – ABC Commissioning Editor

Lewis Isaacs – ABC Producer

Disclosure: Sharath Mahendran is part of the housing activist group Sydney YIMBY, of which he was previously a committee member.

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