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Vaucluse tenants would need high incomes.

Suburbs where a $400,000 household income isn’t enough to live

With rents rising much faster than wages, tenants here would need to have gained a 51 per cent pay rise since 2019, just to keep pace.

  • Elizabeth Redman

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IHG Hotels and Resorts has opened the doors at its latest voco.

Chatswood to house $290m 198-unit built-to-rent complex

Novus has extended its reach into the residential sector via the lower north shore.

  • Carolyn Cummins
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Thousands of units and ‘taller, thinner’ towers: The divisive plan to revive Bondi Junction

Waverley Council wants to encourage more apartments and late-night venues around Oxford Street Mall. Not everyone agrees.

  • Megan Gorrey
Single parent Logan Bell is one of thousands of low-income earners struggling to afford basic living expenses, according to a new report by QCOSS.

‘Spread so thin’: Single parents among those hardest hit by cost of living pressure

Logan Bell worked two jobs, studied full-time and looked for housing during the three months she spent living in a hotel with her daughter.

  • Courtney Kruk
Eastwood Woolworths opened in 1976, and little has changed about its facade since then.

Sydney Woolies ‘that time forgot’ faces uncertain future

With its old-school signage, Eastwood Woolworths has barely changed in almost 50 years. But a major housing development could mean the end of the time-capsule supermarket.

  • Siena Fagan
NSW planning official Aoife Wynter has been removed from her post for using an unauthorised AI tool to assess major housing projects.

Planning official used husband’s AI tool to fast-track hundreds of Sydney housing proposals

The government’s signature housing development agency is scrambling to reassess projects delivering more than 100,000 homes.

  • Alexandra Smith and Max Maddison
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Councillor Matthew Thompson outside Sydney Town Hall - just one of the locations where the council’s planter boxes are located

Half the price at Bunnings: Row over Sydney council’s $20m planter boxes

The eye-watering cost of installing flower boxes in Sydney’s CBD has triggered a debate about whether funds should be redirected into affordable housing.

  • David Barwell
High density housing is planned for more than a dozen sites across Sydney.

The Sydney supermarket sites set for 12,000 homes

Owners of some of Sydney’s biggest supermarkets and retail hubs are taking advantage of new planning laws.

  • David Barwell
Robert Pradolin and Dan McKenna from Housing All Australians.

Sydney commute times soar as city’s affordable rental ‘deserts’ grow

Low-income renters have virtually no hope of finding an achievable property close to the CBD, forcing them to travel huge distances to find a place to live.

  • David Barwell
Wendy Whiteley, the wife and muse of the late artist Brett Whiteley, transformed a once derelict junkyard adjoining her home into a lush public garden.

‘Really bad planning’: Wendy Whiteley joins the fight against Sydney high-rise apartments

The government wants to fast-track nearly 1000 homes in a “magical” harbourside suburb. Locals say the high-rise blocks will ruin the spot’s character.

  • Megan Gorrey

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