A new federal housing department would build 360,000 affordable new homes over five years for people to buy or rent at a net cost of $12.5 billion under the Greens proposal.
Like Los Angeles,Brisbane is an Olympic city in the throes of a homelessness crisis. And both are searching for solutions.
Premier Chris Minns announced the audit in May,saying it would be completed within months as part of the government’s priority of improving housing supply.
The filing in the Supreme Court is an escalation in a class-action lawsuit,with fears the government may begin moving residents out of the towers before the matter is heard in court.
The Greens housing spokesman says the empty homes recorded in the census means supply isn’t the cause of the housing crisis. The reality is quite different.
It might look like any other South Brisbane apartment building,but it operates on a model that advocates say is life changing.
The annual summit,held at the International Convention Centre,hears pitches from all sorts of Sydneysiders on the one big thing they would do to change the city.
Would you want a cavoodle licking you on the 7.30am express to the city? What about ripping up Rushcutters Bay park for a mangrove swamp? Four Sydneysiders present their big idea to change the city for good.
The class action argues the state government failed to properly consider the human rights of residents when it decided to raze and redevelop the towers.
The new analysis comes as the federal government launched the first round of tenders for funding through its $10 billion Housing Australia Future Fund.
Designed to be “slum-less,lane-less and pub-less”,the entire suburb of Haberfield is a heritage conservation zone – and its population is ageing alongside its houses.