Public housing
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Housing affordability
How to solve Australia’s housing crisis
Governments have neglected their fundamental obligation to realise everyone’s human right to housing and home.
- by Kevin Bell
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NSW’s new maintenance system will see 750 homes revamped with thousands to follow
The NSW government says it is back in control of the maintenance of the homes it owns.
- by Alexandra Smith
Left to rot: The ‘ghost homes’ scourge in our big cities – amid a housing crisis
Tens of thousands of homes sit empty across our major cities, while luxury units replace old apartment blocks - all while debate rages about our home shortage.
- by Greg Callaghan
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The July 13 Edition
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Housing crisis
Sydney mayor’s brazen attempt to annex half an LGA
Despite the severe housing crisis, Sydney councils are spending an inordinate amount of time and energy plotting mergers and demergers they can’t afford.
- by Michael Koziol
The Sirius question: Inside the Sydney building rocking the property conversation
As new owners move in over the next few weeks, the block remains a flashpoint in the debate about public housing in Sydney.
- by Julie Power
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Housing crisis
‘A diabolical mess’: How did we get into this housing crisis, and how do we get out?
Hard-won deposits, soaring rents, crippling mortgages, capital gains, negative gearing … What’s to blame, and how do other countries do housing?
- by Angus Holland and Josh Gordon
Repco, Officeworks, cafes: Not out of the question for Melbourne’s public towers
Homes Victoria last year asked Ernst & Young’s advice on the value of adding thousands of square metres of retail and commercial spaces to some of Melbourne’s public housing towers.
- by Rachel Eddie
‘We need you’: Cook calls on private sector to suggest government land best for housing
Premier Roger Cook says “it’s personal” in the battle to supplement Perth’s increasing housing crisis.
- by Claire Ottaviano
Housing crisis relief on the way as Bentley community home green-lit
A WA church is using its vacant properties to help ease the state’s housing crisis, giving people without a chance of entering the rental market a fresh start.
- by Claire Ottaviano
‘No doubt we will see more homelessness’: Rents increase at more than six times the rate of wages
Experts say other interim measures, such as rent caps and slowing immigration, are needed to ease the pressure on renters until 1.2 million needed homes are built.
- by Jemimah Clegg