🏡 TRANSFORMING EAGLE FARM 🏡
Candidate for Mayor of Brisbane, Jonathan Sriranganathan and Stephen Bates – Greens MP for Brisbane, have announced our plan to transform Eagle Farm Racecourse and build thousands of publicly-owned homes.
Right now, the racecourse locks up a huge chunk of our city’s green space for horse racing and parties for the city’s richest. The only people who benefit from this public space are gambling companies.
Meanwhile, our public housing waiting list is out of control and thousands of essential workers can’t afford to live in the neighbourhoods they work in. We’re pricing out workers, families and young people from living where they want.
Even people who work at the racecourse, serving food and drinks and cleaning, can’t afford to live locally.
Our Eagle Farm proposal will reshape the face of our city and give thousands of teachers, nurses, cleaners, retail and hospo workers and more the chance to live close to their jobs, family and friends.
An unlocked Eagle Farm can have sports fields, a school, a library, shops and heaps of accessible green space. It will serve not just these new homes but tens of thousands of people who live nearby.
Eagle Farm Racecourse is one of the last “goldilocks” sites for development in inner city Brisbane. Eagle Farm has its own train station. It’s close to jobs and shops. There’s good transport connections to the airport and the city.
There are few places better to provide good, affordable housing for thousands of people.
This is an opportunity to show everyone what well-designed gentle density looks like in our unique subtropical climate. We can turn Eagle Farm into a community we all dream of living in, with homes, jobs, shops, public transport, libraries and schools all within a short walk.
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