Public housing
‘We’re staying’: Public housing residents dig in over tower rebuilds
Some residents say they will refuse to leave their homes in protest at state government plans to raze and rebuild 44 towers in Melbourne.
- by Rachel Eddie
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Planning
Stalling tough decisions on housing has left a mess of our own making
If the Allan government is serious about tackling affordability and maintaining Melbourne’s liveability, it will need to confront some tricky policy reforms.
- by Josh Gordon
Billion-dollar blame game as towers sit empty during housing crisis
The “three sisters” in Telopea have been vacant and padlocked for months due to slow progress on one of Sydney’s biggest public housing redevelopments – and there’s no start in sight.
- by Michael Koziol
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Lidia Thorpe grew up in public housing towers. Now she wants to save them
The former Greens senator says it was a “dog act” by then-premier Daniel Andrews to announce the towers would be rebuilt just six days before he quit politics.
- by Rachael Dexter
Mushrooms on the wall, ruined clothes, brain fog: The Sydney tenants living with mould
Public housing tenants have said complaints to the government to have chronic mould issues addressed have been ignored, leading to ongoing health issues.
- by Amber Schultz
Premier says public housing tower maintenance would have cost $2.3b over 20 years
Daniel Andrews said maintaining Melbourne’s 44 public housing towers would cost about $55 million each over two decades, but declined to say how much redevelopment would cost.
- by Rachel Eddie
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Property development
Government urged to dump developer levy for new charge
Developers could face new variable infrastructure charges that depend on the location of major housing projects to encourage urban infill and help pay for new schools, hospitals, roads and public transport.
- by Josh Gordon
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Cabinet plan to boost social housing dumped in favour of developers
Cabinet documents reveal a bold social housing plan was abandoned by the Andrews government in favour of measures that help developers.
- by Royce Millar and Josh Gordon
Meet the risk-taking ‘higher power’ tasked with fixing the state’s housing crisis
She survived cancer, reads 200 books a year and lives in a tiny terrace. But can the “pretty stubborn” Planning Department boss Kiersten Fishburn work miracles?
- by Michael Koziol
Plan to demolish, rebuild public housing towers savaged by urban experts
Premier Daniel Andrews described the plan to remake the state’s 44 high-rise public housing towers as the biggest urban renewal project Australia has ever seen.
- by Bianca Hall
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How towers in the clouds replaced the slums of Melbourne’s mean streets
Melbourne’s inner city was once a maze of slums. They were replaced by homes in the sky that would lead tens of thousands into a new multicultural Australia.
- by Tony Wright