‘Empty promises’: Voter fronts Crisafulli over homeless crisis
A Queenslander fed-up with a lack of services for homeless people has challenged Opposition Leader David Crisafulli during a campaign stop on the Sunshine Coast.
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‘I’ve moved 10 times in a year because I’ve got too many kids’
A mother-of-nine has highlighted a major crisis across Queensland, revealing she has had to move house about 10 times in a year.
‘How ironic’: Latest social housing push leaves vulnerable out in cold
Rural patients and their families travelling to the city for vital healthcare such as brain surgery or transplants are losing discount accommodation, as the apartment blocks have been bought up by the government for the homeless.
Schools’ desperate measures as homeless, drug-addled invade
Queensland schools are bolstering security after a surge in homeless, drug-affected and mentally unwell people trespassing.
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Holy land: LNP eyes vacant church lots for 10k new homes
Faith leaders have welcomed an election commitment by the LNP to introduce a build-to-rent scheme aimed at using vacant church land for social housing.
‘Forgot to tell me they’d found me accommodation’: Support services buckle under demand
New data shows that caseloads for Queensland homeless support services have grown three times the national average, with many struggling to keep up.
‘Bit facetious’: War of words over LNP plan to remove first-home buyer restriction
David Crisafulli has vowed to remove a restriction that would open the door to home ownership to young Queenslanders, but Labor slammed a claim about the plan. POLL
‘Move on or $700 fine’: Caravan city just metres from Housing Minister’s office
There is “no better proof” that the housing crisis is getting worse than people sleeping rough in a park just up the road from Housing Minister Meaghan Scanlon’s Gold Coast electorate office, critics say.
660 turned away: Charities struggle amid crippling cost-of-living demand
Community organisations have been forced to deny hundreds of vulnerable Queenslanders relief amid the crippling cost of living crisis.
House price rise warning: Stamp duty plan ‘a race to the bottom’
The Property Council has lashed the government’s budget plan to increase foreign investor land tax surcharge to offset new stamp duty concessions for first home buyers, warning it will drive up house prices.
Dire warning to all Qlders: ‘This can happen to you’
A man living on the streets for the first time says he is “living proof” of how easy things can get tough.
Only a quarter of Brisbane suburbs now affordable
Only one in four suburbs across Brisbane are now “affordable”, a number which has halved in just five years – with a surprising line-up named in the Queensland capital’s top 10 liveability list.
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