We wander down some well-trodden tracks in this week’s podcast, but there are a few twists and turns to keep you on your toes.

We dissect the arguments in a long missive from Airbnb about why it’s not their fault that there’s a housing crisis. 

The basic flaw in their argument – we need to build more homes (true) - is that building homes takes years but banning short-term lets could put more than 60,000 houses and apartments back on the market overnight.

We look at the benighted Aurora building in Melbourne and claims that non-English speaking owners didn’t know what they were voting for when they signed proxy forms.

And that segues into a discussion about how to get anyone to read anything to do with strata, ever.  As usual, we have a couple of cunning plans.

And we explore new laser goggles which will apparently let builders spot defects even faster than David Chandler. That’s all in this week’s Flat Chat Wrap.

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Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai.
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