The Minns government has revised its plans to redevelop the Riverwood public housing estate near Bankstown,blaming market forces.
Members of the Allan government are fuming after a minister failed to head off a damaging parliamentary inquiry into the demolition of 44 social housing towers.
Mismanaged bathroom repairs left public housing tenant Jasmine forced to use a bucket in her backyard as a toilet.
Tiny homes,about the size of a large shipping container with one bedroom and one bathroom in their 43-square-metre frame,are being trialled as a social housing fix.
Despite facing the same pressures as other global cities,Paris has a deliberate strategy to retain its poorer citizens – and it spends a lot of money doing so.
At least 800 social housing homes could have been built on land sold by the state government in the past four years,according to an industry analysis.
Lynette Smith’s experience buying a private apartment on an old public housing estate has raised questions about the state’s plan to build more affordable homes.
A new federal housing department would build 360,000 affordable new homes over five years for people to buy or rent at a net cost of $12.5 billion under the Greens proposal.
Like Los Angeles,Brisbane is an Olympic city in the throes of a homelessness crisis. And both are searching for solutions.
Premier Chris Minns announced the audit in May,saying it would be completed within months as part of the government’s priority of improving housing supply.
The filing in the Supreme Court is an escalation in a class-action lawsuit,with fears the government may begin moving residents out of the towers before the matter is heard in court.