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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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The end of pandemic-era assistance has contributed to Australian income inequality reaching its highest level this century.

Lucky for some: the older get richer in the worst wealth divide in two decades

A long-running survey of Australians has found inequality has shot up, just as young people find themselves shut out of the housing market.

  • Shane Wright

We’re flying blind, now they’ve quietly buried our vital Six Cities blueprint

Where’s the vision? NSW government removes a key plan for our future.

  • Eamon Waterford

Our housing industry’s going nowhere fast. It’s not just red tape

Our home building industry is clapped out, nobbled by poor planning, a lack of innovation and overzealous regulation. But the biggest problem is productivity.

  • Ross Gittins
WA is not building enough new homes to put a roof over our booming population’s heads.

WA’s housing crisis in numbers: What’s changed since Labor took office in 2017?

Since WA Labor swept into power in March 2017, the gulf between the haves and the have-nots has only grown wider. With a state election just days away, how do the key housing numbers stack up?

  • Sarah Brookes
Mortgage holders are breathing slightly easier, but being a renter now is ‘dire’.

‘Hanging on with fingernails’: How much you need to earn to get a home

Home borrowers can breathe slightly easier since last month, but advocates warn that the situation for many renters is now dire.

  • Emily Power
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House values have risen across the country but rents are easing, according to new data.

Rates fall, house values lift and rents start to ease

The RBA’s first rate cut in almost five years has put a floor under the nation’s property market, but rents continue to ease.

  • Shane Wright
Steve and Fin Wilkinson.

Meet the parents giving their kids enough money to buy a home

Ordinary mums and dads are giving gifts ranging from $30,000 to $300,000 and more, recognising that it’s so much harder for young people to buy a home these days.

  • Tawar Razaghi
The next 25 activity centres for extra housing have been announced.

The two inner-city councils that have to open up their streets to density

Inner suburbs such as Prahran and Thornbury, and outer suburbs including Dandenong, have been identified as the next hubs for the development of extra housing.

  • Kieran Rooney and Rachel Eddie
Chatswood Public is among the northern Sydney schools to have recently received an upgrade.

These north shore schools have been shelved but thousands of new homes are coming

Plans for an education precinct at St Leonards and a new Chatswood public primary school were earmarked under the former government.

  • Lucy Carroll

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