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Jenson Galvin, 19, hopes to be able to buy a home in Brighton within 10 years.

This 19-year-old says with hard work, he’ll buy a home in Brighton soon. But for an unpaid performer, the Australian dream is distant

The Age invited a diverse group of young Melburnians to discuss the housing crisis. Some see hard work as a path to buying a home, while others point to the need for more subsidised housing and better transport links.

  • Angus Delaney

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Most of Jeff’s mates have already left.

Jeff lived with his mates. Then a developer bought his home, and he has no-one left

Two Paddington boarding houses are the site of a lost battle to stop a developer evicting residents to build luxury housing.

  • Sue Williams
Tenants got breathing space in February as vacancy rates rose.

Landlords could once increase rents 20 per cent a year. That’s changed

Despite more properties being available for rent in February than the previous month, experts say it’s still a landlord’s market.

  • Alice Uribe and Elizabeth Redman
Barry Berih leads public housing tenants outside the Supreme Court in Melbourne in October.

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
Cory Memery at his former home on a Carlton public housing estate.

‘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
New data on Perth’s rental vacancy rate have been called into question.

For rent? Or room-only? Vacancy rate data questioned as WA rental crisis shows signs of easing

Three quarters of affordable rental properties in Perth aren’t even for a house or an apartment – it’s a bedroom only.

  • Sarah Brookes
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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
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
The Allan government’s new planning rules have been nicknamed “the toastie”.

How a ham and cheese toastie could upend the state’s planning laws

The Victorian government insists its changes to planning laws won’t change heritage overlays. This is partly true. It’s also disingenuous.

  • Chip Le Grand
There’s a fierce debate about how much money you really need to retire comfortably, but less is said about how the status of your home affects this.

Just how bad is it to retire with a mortgage?

There’s a fierce debate about how much money you really need to retire comfortably, but less is said about how the status of your home affects this.

  • Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon

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