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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

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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
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
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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
Queens Riverside residents after hearing the luxury hotel next door Fraser Suites would be converted to public housing.

Neighbours of former luxury East Perth hotel ‘blindsided’ by government’s purchase

The 19-storey tower comprises 236 luxury apartments and 11 commercial suites, all of which will now be converted into long-term social and affordable housing.

  • Hamish Hastie
Ruth Eyakem, a resident of the Racecourse Road housing towers for over 20 years, spoke at the parliamentary inquiry.

‘A cash grab’: Tower residents say they are being coerced into leaving

Residents of Melbourne’s public housing towers have told a parliamentary inquiry they have been coerced into relocation and do not wish to leave their homes. 

  • Cara Waters
Hawa Del has been living at 33 Alfred Street, North Melbourne for 34 years.

State quietly buying city homes for tower tenants as inquiry looms

A former judge and the CFMEU have slammed the Victorian government’s tower plan in submissions to an inquiry that is to start next week.

  • Rachael Dexter

Original URL: https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/topic/public-housing-60y