Our unending housing crisis will never get fixed without a lot more thought and effort

Our unending housing crisis will never get fixed without a lot more thought and effort

The cost-of-living crisis will pass,but the housing crisis will continue to get worse,unless our politicians – federal,state and local – try a lot harder.

  • byRoss Gittins

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Getting our housing in order:Why building new homes is so hard,but must be done

Getting our housing in order:Why building new homes is so hard,but must be done

The state government set an ambitious target to build 800,000 new dwellings over a decade to fix the housing crisis. It’s off to a slow start.

  • byJosh Gordon
Nearly 3000 Victorian households apply for social housing in three months

Nearly 3000 Victorian households apply for social housing in three months

The fresh waiting list figures come as the state opposition has accused the Allan government of trying to make its data look better by changing the way it is reported.

  • byBroede Carmody andAnnika Smethurst
Joal’s landlord is leaving her old home empty. She can’t understand why

Joal’s landlord is leaving her old home empty. She can’t understand why

Thousands of homes are empty across Victoria,prompting concerns that unused properties are contributing to the housing crisis in Victoria.

  • byJim Malo
Tents in busy Brisbane intersection just one part of crisis,advocates say

Tents in busy Brisbane intersection just one part of crisis,advocates say

The new cluster of tents has prompted renewed calls for urgent investment in long-term solutions to the housing crisis.

  • byCourtney Kruk
The metro will transform this Sydney suburb but not everyone’s on board

The metro will transform this Sydney suburb but not everyone’s on board

Waterloo will be the suburb the metro rail line helped revamp,if the state government can pull off its plan to redevelop the surrounding public housing estate.

  • byMegan Gorrey
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Nightmare neighbours:Public housing tenants terrorise Perth suburb
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Nightmare neighbours:Public housing tenants terrorise Perth suburb

Welcome to the town where 10-year-olds are threatening people with knives,people are attacking others with hammers at the supermarket and the only way to go out after dark is with pepper spray and a cattle prod.

  • byRebecca Peppiatt
Victoria’s ‘affordable’ housing scheme is an insult to people’s intelligence

Victoria’s ‘affordable’ housing scheme is an insult to people’s intelligence

Amid the worst housing crisis on record,prime public land is being sold to private developers. So where is the public outrage?

  • byKate Shaw
High-rise affordable housing project fast-tracked for Frankston

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.

  • byPatrick Hatch
Land set aside for social housing to be sold off for private 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.

  • byRachel Eddie
The Victorian social housing projects that have quietly lost funding

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.

  • byRachel Eddie