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Housing Minister Harriet Shing outside the former VicRoads site.

Crumbling facade, no balconies: The push to turn a ’60s concrete bunker into homes

The facade is falling away and the windows are tiny – this is a building that is showing its age. So, transport nerds, would you want to live inside the former VicRoads offices in Kew?

  • Tom Cowie

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‘Pretty regressive’: Labor and Coalition housing policies explained

Grattan Institute housing expert Brendan Coates says new policies may help some people into the housing market, but a majority are still being left behind.

Australia is one of the best places in the world for women to get divorced. Allan Myers is trying to make it safer for rich, divorced men.

I’m a 64-year-old finance professional … and I’m homeless

More Australians are finding themselves without a roof over their heads. For some of us, it’s a matter of life or death.

  • John Coles
Judy Mundey looks up at a mural that shows her late husband Jack Mundey - in the upper right with a loudspeaker - a leader of the Builders Labourer Federation and the green ban movement which saved the ’Loo for working-class people and defeated a proposal for highrise.

These murals honour Sydney’s hero of heritage. Will they be preserved themselves?

Murals depicting the Woolloomooloo community joining unions to save the historic area from development are fading. And not everyone wants them repainted.

  • Julie Power
Flemington

How housing, hope and, yes, even horses have shaped this suburb

It’s home to Australia’s most famous racecourse, but there is so much more to Flemington.

  • Sophie Aubrey
One of Melbourne’s public housing towers.

Public housing residents vow to resist eviction after lawsuit thrown out

The state government plans to pursue for legal costs the tenant who led the class action against it.

  • Rachael Dexter
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Victoria’s ageing social housing towers are in poor condition and at the centre of a political brawl.

‘Crushing demand’ for social housing as Victoria’s waiting list surges

Cost of living pressure is being blamed for the third consecutive quarterly increase to the number of Victorian families trying to get into social housing.

  • Kieran Rooney and Daniella White
The former dive sites for the WestConnex on Parramatta Road will eventually be turned into housing.

Everyone agrees these vacant lots should become units. But public housing? That depends

Former WestConnex tunnelling sites will be upzoned for units, but Greens and Labor councillors have clashed over how much should be devoted to public housing.

  • Anthony Segaert
Barry Berih leads public housing tenants outside the Supreme Court in Melbourne in October.

Flemington and North Melbourne towers to be redeveloped with no public housing

The new developments will have community and “affordable” housing, but none of it will be state run.

  • Rachael Dexter and Cara Waters
About 390 new dwellings are under construction at Eden Street and Princes Highway in Arncliffe.

Coalition claims housing fund has built zero homes. Labor says they are delivering

Hundreds of homes have been completed with work under way on thousands more across the country.

  • Shane Wright and Millie Muroi

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