Public housing
High-rise affordable housing project fast-tracked for Frankston
Victoria’s planning minister has fast-tracked approval for affordable housing in Frankston. The project is likely to be controversial though, given a fight by locals against similar high-rises.
- by Patrick Hatch
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Property development
Land set aside for social housing to be sold off for private development
The Allan government is planning to rezone and sell the block in Melbourne’s north to developers, despite insisting just days ago that it had not scrapped the project.
- by Rachel Eddie
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Victorian Parliament
The Victorian social housing projects that have quietly lost funding
Hundreds of new homes due to be built on state land have been left without funding after the state government removed them from its Big Housing Build scheme to cut costs.
- by Rachel Eddie
Plans to build 3000 new homes in Sydney’s inner south one step closer
The state government wants to build thousands of apartments near a new metro station. One local councillor has lashed it as an “epic fail” to deliver more public housing.
- by Megan Gorrey
Opinion
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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State Parliament
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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Good Weekend
The July 13 Edition
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Opinion
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