Victoria’s ageing social housing towers are in poor condition and at the centre of a political brawl.

‘Crushing demand’ for social housing as Victoria’s waiting list surges

Cost of living pressure is being blamed for the third consecutive quarterly increase to the number of Victorian families trying to get into social housing.

  • Kieran Rooney andDaniella White

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The former dive sites for the WestConnex on Parramatta Road will eventually be turned into housing.

Everyone agrees these vacant lots should become units. But public housing? That depends

Former WestConnex tunnelling sites will be upzoned for units,but Greens and Labor councillors have clashed over how much should be devoted to public housing.

  • Anthony Segaert
Barry Berih leads public housing tenants outside the Supreme Court in Melbourne in October.

Flemington and North Melbourne towers to be redeveloped with no public housing

The new developments will have community and “affordable” housing,but none of it will be state run.

  • Rachael Dexter andCara Waters
About 390 new dwellings are under construction at Eden Street and Princes Highway in Arncliffe.

Coalition claims housing fund has built zero homes. Labor says they are delivering

Hundreds of homes have been completed with work under way on thousands more across the country.

  • Shane Wright andMillie Muroi
Cory Memery at his former home on a Carlton public housing estate.

‘I thought we’d look after people’:60,000 homes needed for vulnerable Victorians

Advocate Cory Memery says the government can’t “wash its hands” of vulnerable Victorians,and that any new investment – like the $30 billion build recommended by Infrastructure Victoria – should be for state-managed public housing.

  • Rachel Eddie
Tents in South Brisbane’s Musgrave Park.

‘If winds get above 80km/h,it will become unsafe to move’:Fears for city’s rough sleepers

Organisations say shelter needs to be set up for the region’s homeless population now.

  • Courtney Kruk andRosanna Ryan
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Norrie May-Welby,63,is among Waterloo residents whose homes will be demolished.

Norrie wanted this unit to be her ‘forever home’. Now,she has to move

More than 100 people in this inner Sydney suburb have been given six months’ warning they have to leave. They don’t know where they’ll move.

  • Megan Gorrey
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‘Classic Daniel’:How the ex-premier’s housing gambit created Labor schism

Daniel Andrews’ final promise was pitched as visionary urban renewal,but it has left many Labor figures livid,deepening tensions over the state’s housing future.

  • Royce Millar andRachael Dexter
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Slugging for the masses

And the myth of mock quinces.

Residents of housing commission flats in Fitzroy were evacuated after a fire on the sixth floor in 2017.

House fires disproportionately kill public tenants

Six of 44 people who died in preventable house fires over five years were public housing tenants,despite the homes being a tiny fraction of Victoria’s housing stock.

  • Rachel Eddie