Affordable housing
Analysis
Analysis
Albanese goes back to the future for housing reform
Giving the states a kick up the bum while offering them cash to really put more housing stock into the market is one step to repairing the damage caused by decades of poor policy.
- by Shane Wright
Latest
Middle-class women are doing DIY divorce – but it could cost them
Women who don’t qualify for legal aid but don’t have the cash to pay family lawyers are “falling through the cracks”, accepting do-it-yourself settlements.
- by Wendy Tuohy
Opinion
Renting
Why freezing rents could make more people homeless
Only when housing is plentiful will it also be affordable. So we need to build more dwellings where people want to live.
- by Brendan Coates and Joey Moloney
The four fixes Anthony Albanese wants for the housing crisis
The prime minister is confident of securing pledges from state premiers to tackle what he sees as the key obstacles to new housing projects.
- by David Crowe
Labor leaders aiming for national plan to boost renters’ rights
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is seeking the deal at a national cabinet meeting in Brisbane next week while also negotiating new commitments on planning laws to add 1 million homes across the country.
- by David Crowe
Perth’s rental vacancies still below 1 per cent as crunch attracts east coast investors
The industry hopes the vacancy rate’s inch upwards by a tiny fraction signals that the tide is finally turning for Perth’s sustained and painful rental crisis.
- by Sarah Brookes
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Marrickville
The plan to add thousands of affordable apartments in Sydney’s inner west
A pilot project in Marrickville, by award-winning architects, will provide dozens of homes at well below market rates.
- by Julie Power
‘Almost at the edge’: What life’s like in Melbourne’s most mortgaged suburb
Seventy-two per cent of properties are mortgaged and after 12 interest rate rises, homeowners say they’re struggling to make ends meet.
- by Jim Malo
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State Parliament
Minns government on cusp of rewriting Sydney housing density reforms
The NSW premier’s plans to let developers build higher and denser, in return for affordable and social housing, have been branded “impractical and unfeasible”.
- by Max Maddison and Michael McGowan
Housing stoush reignites as $10 billion fund returns to parliament
The Albanese government’s threat to hold an early election over its signature $10 billion housing policy will draw a step closer when the laws return to parliament on Wednesday.
- by James Massola
More land for housing to be released at Hamilton Northshore
The Queensland government will free up almost 50,000 square metres of near-riverside land at Hamilton for new homes, some of which for social and affordable housing.
- by Cameron Atfield