Public housing
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
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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
‘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
Everyone agrees these vacant lots should become units. But public housing? That depends
Former WestConnex tunnelling sites will be upzoned for units, but Greens and Labor councillors have clashed over how much should be devoted to public housing.
- Anthony Segaert
Flemington and North Melbourne towers to be redeveloped with no public housing
The new developments will have community and “affordable” housing, but none of it will be state run.
- Rachael Dexter and Cara Waters
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- Housing crisis
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
‘I thought we’d look after people’: 60,000 homes needed for vulnerable Victorians
Advocate Cory Memery says the government can’t “wash its hands” of vulnerable Victorians, and that any new investment – like the $30 billion build recommended by Infrastructure Victoria – should be for state-managed public housing.
- Rachel Eddie
‘If winds get above 80km/h, it will become unsafe to move’: Fears for city’s rough sleepers
Organisations say shelter needs to be set up for the region’s homeless population now.
- Courtney Kruk and Rosanna Ryan
Norrie wanted this unit to be her ‘forever home’. Now, she has to move
More than 100 people in this inner Sydney suburb have been given six months’ warning they have to leave. They don’t know where they’ll move.
- Megan Gorrey
‘Classic Daniel’: How the ex-premier’s housing gambit created Labor schism
Daniel Andrews’ final promise was pitched as visionary urban renewal, but it has left many Labor figures livid, deepening tensions over the state’s housing future.
- Royce Millar and Rachael Dexter
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