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New research suggests Australian rents and house prices could fall if the country adopted less prescriptive planning laws.

Lessons on the housing crisis from across the ditch

New Zealand offers ideas on how to cut rents and make homes more affordable. But there are also warnings about following its super-for-housing policy.

  • Shane Wright

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Experts warn lower home ownership rates will make poverty among retirees worse in coming decades.

Boomers are enjoying their retirement – unless they’re renting

Even as the richest generation, two-thirds of Baby Boomer retirees who rent are living in poverty – and the housing crisis will make it worse for future generations.

  • Millie Muroi
Schandel, left, says her family’s three-bedroom unit has worked well.

Will Sydney’s apartments ever become more family friendly?

Apartments have traditionally not been the right fit for families. One idea could change that.

  • Anthony Segaert
The ATO is cracking down on landlords who don’t declare, or incorrectly declare, rental income.

The ATO’s new move to claw back more than $1b from dodgy landlords

Landlords who have made mistakes on tax returns could face thousands of dollars in fines and interest on top of repaying unpaid tax.

  • Jim Malo
Michael Tuohy

Moving from a Sydney unit to a house gets five times harder in a generation

With Sydney’s median house price almost double that of the typical unit in the city, the difference between the two property types has turned into a chasm.

  • Kristy Johnson
Resident John Patmore who has lived in his Paddington boarding house apartment for 17 years.

John will be evicted from his ‘forever home’. He has nowhere to go

He is one of 32 battlers in the Paddington boarding houses that will have locks changed and power cut on February 1 before redevelopment into luxury houses.

  • Sue Williams
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“Lovely sunroom”: Meg Kanofski at home in her inner Sydney flat.

I’ve had four housemates in three years. And I’m not the problem

You might think sub-letting a room that fits a queen bed in a clean, comfortable, well-located apartment would be easy in a housing crisis. Not so, but I got there in the end.

  • Meg Kanofski
Outgoing housemate Julia de Sterke with current housemates Vicky Lee, Shanky Yip, and Melissa Monroe in their Newtown sharehouse.

‘You’re competing with so many others’: Inside the weird world of rental speed-dating

10 minutes to choose your housemates for a year? How the housing crisis has made finding a room in Sydney riskier than ever.

  • Penry Buckley
Jackie Olling swapped Sydney for London, where she pays more rent but is much better off.

Jackie was sick of the Sydney rental market, so she moved to London

Jackie Olling is among the thousands of young professionals leaving Sydney every year - for places even more expensive.

  • Daniel Lo Surdo
If this says ** FOR USE IN PROPERTY SECTION ** is that fairly off limits for us?

The renters’ revolt: How to safeguard your rights as a tenant in Queensland

Recent changes to tenancy laws are a start, but there are other steps renters can take to protect their rights in an increasingly competitive market.

  • Courtney Kruk

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