Things Will Be Different tells the story of two of the final residents to vacate their homes ahead of a controversial public housing estate demolition.
The Coalition’s plan to allow Australians to use their super for housing would disproportionately help wealthier people buy more expensive homes.
Australia’s housing crisis will worsen in coming years. Independent MP Allegra Spender has a simple plan to help fix it.
North Melbourne has long been gentrified,and its mixed-income residents have always co-existed,but a windfall of government and private investment could change that.
The legal fight against the demolition of Melbourne’s high-rise public housing towers has been dealt a major blow.
As the public housing waiting list continues to grow,locals in one suburb are perplexed by vacant state-owned homes in their area.
The state's public housing stock has increased by just 394 since 2018,despite a promise from the government to build 12,000 new homes by 2024.
It was built to last. And that’s unlike the housing we’ve seen go up in the past 20 years. Sirius will stand forever. No cracks,except in the social fabric.
Christopher Lee,who lived in the Lygon Street towers in Carlton,recalls spacious and light-filled rooms,bold architecture and fond childhood memories. That’s why he wants them protected.
Awil Hussein and his two daughters call the North Melbourne public housing towers home and say their community will be destroyed if a plan to demolish them is allowed to go ahead.
Opposition to the state government’s plan to raze 44 towers is mounting,including from a former Labor deputy prime minister and a 97-year-old industry icon,architect Peter McIntyre.