Public housing
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
Latest
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
Explainer
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
Perspective
Government
Queensland says it’s doing ‘everything’ it can to help with housing. But is it?
The state’s peak social service body suggests there is more Labor could be doing to ease housing pressures – and turns the spotlight on the LNP.
- by Matt Dennien
‘Hang our heads in shame’: Locals join public housing tenants’ development fight
Port Melbourne residents have joined forces with former tenants of the Barak Beacon public housing block to fight plans to build an 11-storey tower on the site.
- by Cara Waters
Victoria has thousands of empty public housing dwellings
A new report also shows the state has only added about 300 new public homes in the past eight years.
- by Broede Carmody
Exclusive
Property development
The YIMBY plan to oust the NIMBYs from local councils
Candidates at the coming local government elections will be asked to pledge that they will not block apartment developments, as YIMBY and pro-housing groups seek to expand their clout in key inner-city areas.
- by Royce Millar and Rachael Dexter