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Reusing empty city buildings could help solve the housing crisis
Wrapped around the entrance of a building in Melbourne’s CBD is a glossy artwork depicting a dark sky with luminous…
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More Australians believe they’ll be ‘forever renters’. What does it mean?
Home ownership is a pervasive ideal in Australia. Almost from the time we are born, we are told that “rent…
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Share housing can be great for the budget, you just need to find the right match
Brody Thiele is a social person who’s “never really wanted to live alone”. The 31-year-old social media producer says share…
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The changing world around one of Australia’s first ‘art deco’ apartments
When the doors of New Farm’s Coronet Flats opened to the public in 1933, it was a structure unlike anything…
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‘Grim’ numbers as Australians experiencing long-term homelessness rises
Women sleeping in cars after escaping violence not a ‘solution’, say experts Domestic violence services in NSW are at 150…
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Housing crisis pushing domestic violence victims back to perpetrators
A homeless shelter has just one bed free but several people in need. How do workers decide who to accept…
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The dark side of Sydney’s housing crisis: 20 people in two-bed apartments and shocking health risks
Rental costs have hit record highs across Australia — in Sydney, for example, tiny two-bedroom apartments can fetch weekly rents…
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Inquiry looking into how to make it easier for first home buyers to get a loan
As the Reserve Bank meets to consider whether to follow in America’s footsteps and cut interest rates, housing affordability is…
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Polling suggests voters prefer housing supply over negative gearing restrictions, as Labor cools on reform
Polling by a Labor-linked firm shows less than half of voters back the idea of restricting negative gearing, as the…
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This artist lives on a run-down yacht in one of Sydney’s most affluent areas. He fears the death of Australia’s creative oasis
Andrew Nichols and his dog aboard their aging yacht. (Dean Sewell/Oculi) Photojournalist Dean Sewell explores the story of artist Andrew Nichols who…
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