Month: November 2025

2025 November Morning in Conversation

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Why is the Missing Middle so hard to Find?

A huge thank you to our guest speakers – Professor Paul Burton; Kerrianne Meulman and Maya Glassman for sharing their powerful insights with us on Why the Missing Middle is so hard to find. Please enjoy looking through the presentations so thoughtfully put together for our benefit by these speakers.

Professor Paul Burton

Professor Paul Burton

Kerrianne Meulman – Urban Economics and Suburban Futures

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Maya Glassman – QSHELTER

SEQCA landscape Maya Glassman QSHELTER November 2025Download

Maya kindly alerted us to a Q Shelter program of seminars on the 2032 Housing Legacy. More details are available here. This is a really important topic for all of us.

We were also privileged to hear from Renay Wells from Take Action for Pumicestone Passage and representing other Sunshine Coast organisations. Renay alerted us to a development application that, if approved, will adversely impact the Inter-Urban Green Belt. Submissions to the Minister are due by Monday 8 December. Further details are available here.

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Why is the Missing Middle so hard to Find?

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Tuesday 25 November 2025

Morning in Conversation with SEQCA: Why is the Missing Middle so hard to find?

Most of us agree we need more housing diversity and more affordable housing, but the evidence is that multistorey high density residential tower blocks are less affordable and less liveable than various types of smaller homes in convenient places spread across the city. So why isn’t this type of development happening and how could we find that mythical Missing Middle? Is it really all down to the NIMBY effect (real or imagined) or are there other factors at play and can we change the trajectory?

When: Tuesday, 25/11/2025, 10.30 am -12.30 pm

Where: Room: S07_2.16/2.18, Griffith University, South Bank Graduate Centre

Guest speakers: Professor Burton, Emeritus Professor of Urban Management and Planning; Ms Kerrianne Meulman, Managing Director, Urban Economics and Director, Suburban Futures; Maya Glassman, Policy and Strategic Engagement Lead, Q Shelter.

For registration and additional details, click here.

Mobility as a Service and beyond to Mobility as a Feature

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Date: 11 November 2025

Time: 6:30 – 7:30 pm AEST

           7:30 – 8:30 pm ASDT

Place: ZOOM only

Registration details at:  https://rgsq.org.au/event-6392430

This talk explains what the initial Mobility as a Service (MaaS) idea was and how we have progressed with trying to find a way forward that aligns with a business model and how it might change travel behaviour to achieve a range of sustainability goals. Disappointingly the ecosystem focussed on multi-modalism has to date failed to deliver and we have looked for new ways of seeing is there is ecosystem that may make a rebadged MaaS a worthwhile activity – which we call Mobility as a Feature (MaaF) with embedded multi-service and non-mobility service providers. We sketch out the next generation plan.