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OXYGEN FILES: Australia is in the midst of a housing crisis and although affordable housing is generally considered a state and federal concern, local governments are now stepping up the plate.
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Almost one in six young people aged 15-19 has experienced homelessness, according to a new Mission Australia survey, with “devastating” and long-lasting effects for those experiencing the burden of insecure housing.
Despite growing consensus Australia’s housing system is broken, it failed to rate a mention in this year’s federal budget.
A real estate agency launched in Sydney last week aims to change the game on affordable housing by connecting those in need with investment property owners keen to be part of the solution.
From the Affordable Housing Forum That Sydney is the second-most unaffordable city in the world was not lost on close to 200 people who came together to discuss practical solutions to the chronic underinvestment in social and affordable Housing crisis in Sydney. Diverse participants from all levels of government, development industry, community housing sector, NGOs, […]
Pop-up youth shelters in empty hotels. Portable homes on vacant land set aside for roads. Innovative solutions are appearing to tackle the affordable housing crisis in Sydney and Melbourne. But do they work and how well do they work? Should we be opening up additional buildings and land across our cities? Or should we be […]
From Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute: The number of people sleeping rough in Melbourne’s streets has increased by over 70% in the last two years. Homelessness is now at emergency levels. Key causes are the unaffordability of housing, people escaping domestic violence and a structural lack of social housing. There has been a reduction in the supply […]
From Choice: The rental market in Australia appears to have become something like a war zone. According to a new national study co-authored by CHOICE, thousands of tenants are being discriminated against and live in a climate of fear. The research, undertaken by CHOICE, the National Association of Tenants’ Organisations and National Shelter, found that 83% of […]
A group of investors is using self-managed super funds to develop a social housing project in Melbourne at Passive House standards and at cost parity with conventional social housing.
From ABC illawarra A proposal for a major housing development at Dapto is facing scrutiny over the number of homes set aside for affordable housing. A development application for the $49 million project proposes 144 apartments and 32 townhouses on the former Dapto Public School site, in the New South Wales city of Wollongong. An […]
The Australian Treasurer Scott Morrison has been seeking solutions to the problem of affordable housing in London. So let’s do some fact-checking on his position.
The Nightingale Model is going gangbusters. This triple-bottom-line approach to developing innovative housing in inner-city Melbourne is gaining momentum across Australia with 11 projects now boasting a Nightingale licence, including two in WA. UrbanGrowth NSW has expressed an interest in bringing the concept up to Sydney, there’s watchful eyes in the ACT, potential buyers registering their […]