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Tents being destroyed at an encampment in April after Moreton Bay Council made camping on public land illegal.

SEQ council ordered to stop removing tents of rough sleepers

The decision comes ahead of a hearing in November to determine whether the council’s decision to make public camping illegal violates human rights.

  • Courtney Kruk

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Don’t jump the gun. Paddington’s Victoria Barracks must not be converted for housing

In-filling the Barracks with affordable housing will not solve Sydney’s housing crisis, but it will destroy a part of our heritage.

  • Linda Bergin
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Jodie Haydon with friends he grew up with in what was then the working class suburb of Camperdown in inner Sydney.

‘None of us had been on an aeroplane’: Albanese’s old crew remembers

The group of friends who grew up with the future prime minister recall his humble origins, but also his teenage declaration that he would be a politician.

  • James Massola
Yarra Mayor Stephen Jolly giving evidence at the hearing on Tuesday.

Public housing tower demolition plan is ‘ethnic cleansing’, says mayor

Yarra Mayor Stephen Jolly has slammed the state’s plan to demolish Melbourne’s public housing towers as a land grab and threatened street resistance in explosive inquiry testimony.

  • Rachael Dexter
An artist impression of the precinct around the rail loop’s Cheltenham Station.

Is private office space a public good? SRL density plan suggests so

Housing advocates have warned that social and affordable housing along the rail line could be diminished.

  • Kieran Rooney and Patrick Hatch
Mark Humphries presents new documentary Sold: Who Broke The Australian Dream?

Is property investing ‘morally wrong’? Inside Mark Humphries’ biggest project yet

The comedian known for his short political sketches has turned his sights on the housing crisis in this new doco.

  • Meg Watson
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Housing Minister John Carey.

Minister branded a ‘communist’ in meeting with Perth public housing neighbours

John Carey met with groups of residents to discuss the state government’s plan to convert East Perth’s Fraser Suites tower and its 236 luxury apartments into affordable and social housing.

  • Hamish Hastie
The Selwyn Street boarding houses will not be demolished and turned into luxury apartments by developers, a court has ruled.

The humble boarding house that beat the developers’ wrecking ball

A developer will not be able to demolish affordable housing and construct luxury apartments in Paddington, a court has ruled.

  • Kayla Olaya
John Carey social housing Perth WA main image. Picture: WAtoday

Has WA’s ‘one in every nine’ public housing policy been abandoned?

The policy aimed to evenly disperse public housing across the community to avoid the mistakes of previous governments who accidentally created ghettos by building ‘one-class’ apartment complexes.

  • Heather McNeill
Housing Minister John Carey has announced the government’s purchase of The Sandhouse, in the Shoreline estate in North Coogee.

State buys another whole complex south of Perth for public housing

In a second announcement days after the $105 million acquisition of East Perth’s Fraser Suites, another developer’s whole project will help alleviate WA’s housing crisis.

  • Hamish Hastie