Greater Brisbane is an independent, all-volunteer grassroots urbanist collective trying to build a better city for everyone.

We believe that housing abundance — building more homes in places where people want to live — is the key to solving the housing crisis, making a greater Brisbane and a city that everyone can love and call home.

We were started by people who felt locked out of conversations about their city.

The way our planning system expects people to engage with it privileges the voices of older homeowners with the time, skills and self-confidence to navigate it.

This comes at the expense of renters, young families and aspirational residents who by chance of fate or privilege happen to not already live in wealthy, desirable areas.

We represent them. The people who want secure and affordable homes near their friends, families and communities.

We advocate for better land use, transport and public spaces to make our city more connected, sustainable and accessible.

We know that building that city means sacrifices, compromises and trade-offs but for too long those have been made in favour of people who are opposed to a growing, changing city.

Most people want our city to grow even if the loudest voices don’t agree.

We want modern, affordable homes for everyone who wants to live in our city.

To do this we need to build homes of all types and tenures where people want to live — public, private and commons, townhouses to skyscrapers.

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