Getting our housing in order: Why building new homes is so hard, but must be done
The state government set an ambitious target to build 800,000 new dwellings over a decade to fix the housing crisis. It’s off to a slow start.
- by Josh Gordon
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Stamp-duty concessions for boomers downsizing touted to free up family homes
The property industry says Melbourne’s existing stock of housing is being underutilised. Encouraging “empty nesters” to sell could be part of the solution.
- by Josh Gordon
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Where we live: The changing face of Victoria’s neighbourhoods
In this series, The Age profiles Victorian suburbs and towns to reveal how they’ve changed over the decades.
Pallas vows no new debt despite $1.5b health blowout, but stays coy on fresh taxes
Treasurer Tim Pallas warns a failure to shore up the state’s financial position, including bringing down debt, could have serious consequences for its credit rating.
- by Josh Gordon
Melbourne will have to keep sprawling to house migrants
The Allan government wants Melbourne to grow upwards and not outwards with more homes in existing suburbs, but a new report says avoiding urban sprawl is impossible.
- by Josh Gordon and Broede Carmody
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Former Victorian teal candidates threaten High Court challenge over donation laws
The Allan government is facing a challenge over claims that Victoria’s political donation laws are a rort giving the major parties an unfair advantage.
- by Josh Gordon
Spawned from inner-city muck, this suburb full of lawyers is getting younger
On Gold Street in Clifton Hill there is a stark reminder of the suburb’s past and future. On one side is a primary school – on the other side, an aged care home.
- by Angus Delaney and Josh Gordon
Baby drought grips Brisbane as a ‘great contraceptive’ emerges
Birth rates are plunging across inner and middle suburbs as cost-of-living pressures drive families to the city’s fringe.
- by Marissa Calligeros, Josh Gordon and Sean Parnell
Melbourne in the grip of baby drought as rent becomes ‘a great contraceptive’
A plunge in birth rates in parts of Melbourne is being blamed on a lack of affordable housing and other cost-of-living pressures.
- by Josh Gordon
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One in 20 Melbourne homes empty during housing crisis
Almost 100,000 homes in Melbourne are either unoccupied or barely occupied. They could fix the public housing waiting list twice over.
- by Josh Gordon and Rachael Dexter
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Essential service workers pushed to the fringes by housing crunch
Aged care workers, primary teachers, nurses, paramedics and police are being forced to Melbourne’s fringes by high housing costs, prompting warnings about worker shortages.
- by Josh Gordon and Craig Butt
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