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Protesters outside the housing tower at 33 Alfred Street, North Melbourne on Monday morning.

Public housing tower works delayed as activists block tradies from site

A face-off on Monday morning in North Melbourne has set the scene for a week of resistance to planned demolition works on public housing towers.

  • Rachael Dexter

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Inglewood resident Melissa Molinari.

Residents in ‘most policed area of Perth’ enraged by minister’s response

Housing Minister John Carey was grilled about the complex in parliament on Wednesday as residents watched on and at times heckled from the public gallery.

  • Hamish Hastie
Lucyanna apartments in Inglewood, Perth.

‘Welcome to Crimewood’: Inglewood residents rally against public housing complex

Knife attacks, assaults and screaming into the night are just some of the issues faced by these locals who are fed up and demanding action.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt and Yvonne Ardley
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

‘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
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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
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

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