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Demand has swelled at the same time as a construction slowdown has hit WA’s housing industry.

WA ‘not doing enough’ to fix worsening housing crisis

Experts have urged the state and federal government to act urgently, after a new report revealed the state of WA’s housing market was worse than ever.

  • Holly Thompson

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It’s the rental market where the supply shortfall bites hardest.

Australia’s housing crisis has been laid bare – and there’s one major factor to blame

This crisis has been years in the making and its consequences are being felt by hundreds of thousands of renters, first home buyers and, increasingly, middle-income earners on good salaries.

  • Alan Duncan
A makeshift homeless encampment under the Riverside Expressway in Brisbane CBD.

Tents have disappeared, tunnels cleared. Where are homeless sleeping?

As winter settles in, advocates are again asking for all levels of government to step up.

  • Courtney Kruk
The media rent price in WA is now $613 a week.

‘Poverty trap’: Perth is now the second most expensive city to rent in Australia

New data shows a sharp increase in the price of rentals in WA over the past six years, making it one of the most unaffordable places for tenants in the country.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt
WA’s stamp duty exemption threshold has barely increased in the past decade.

House price rises were meant to ease. So what’s happened?

The theory that the Australian home market will bump up against affordability constraints has made a mockery of price predictions.

  • Elizabeth Knight
Nurse Penny Farries spends up to an hour and a half commuting to work from her home in Illawong

Penny’s commute is 90 minutes each way. No wonder workers like her are quitting

Most of Sydney’s care workers live in the city’s west, but demand is highest in the east. That mismatch is taking a growing toll.

  • Matt Wade
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The fate of Rosehill racecourse is being decided today.

D-Day arrives: Rosehill mini-city proposal rejected

Rosehill racecourse’s mooted transformation into a massive new housing development has been dealt a fatal blow.

  • Michael McGowan, Jessica McSweeney, Kayla Olaya and Max Maddison
Crash Claim’s Loftus Crescent car park.

This block should be housing. Instead, it’s a car yard

This unassuming Homebush block of homes and units was demolished almost a decade ago to make way for more housing. So why has it fallen into “urban decay”?

  • Jessica McSweeney
GIF: Before and after for Rozelle development.

The Balmain Leagues site has been in limbo for 15 years. It’s about to get 227 new homes

The prominent site, which has been languishing since 2010, will be transformed, but some residents think it’s “as workable in Rozelle as a snowflake is in hell”.

  • Megan Gorrey
In the middle of a housing crisis, International House at Sydney University has sat empty for years

Why this grand building on Sydney’s busiest street is derelict

Sydney University’s International House could accommodate 200 students, but amid a rental affordability crisis, it sits abandoned.

  • Christopher Harris

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