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| UpdatedA group of retirees facing eviction after their NSW residential park was sold to a developer are ordered to attend mediation with the company.
Topics: homelessness, housing, courts-and-trials, social-policy, community-and-society, hastings-point-2489
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| UpdatedTrying to buy a house in Hobart? Gen Ys are not the only ones finding it hard to get into the market as it heats up.
Topics: housing-industry, housing, community-and-society, business-economics-and-finance, government-and-politics, hobart-7000
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| UpdatedA group of NSW retirees whose fight for their homes made it all the way to the Supreme Court say they have reached "nightmare stage" as they prepare to learn their fate after a tribunal hearing today.
Topics: homelessness, housing, government-and-politics, courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, social-policy, community-and-society, hastings-point-2489
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| UpdatedMoves to re-establish a Pacific Island Planners Association are underway, with a conference planned in Fiji this week.
Topics: housing, urban-development-and-planning, pacific, fiji
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It is hoped a 20-year plan for a major residential expansion at Lithgow may lead to an influx in services and jobs to the region.
Topics: regional, housing, marrangaroo-2790, lithgow-2790
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Police in Melbourne have removed a group of squatters, including a family, from a house in Collingwood.
Topics: police, housing, collingwood-3066
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The owner of a historic pub in outback Western Australia claims he is paying more rates to live in the remote northern Goldfields than homeowners in one of Perth's most affluent suburbs.
Topics: local-government, regional, regional-development, consumer-finance, economic-trends, housing, kookynie-6431
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| UpdatedAustralia has made no progress in the fight against poverty over a decade, in fact, the percentage of Australians living in poverty actually increased according to a recently released report.
Topics: poverty, community-and-society, housing, social-policy, government-and-politics, australia
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| UpdatedEight years ago, Barbara Squires returned to her university days of share houses and offered to rent a room to a university student. She's now conducting a study into how feasible homesharing would be in Parramatta.
Topics: community-and-society, housing, people, older-people, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedOne of the world's most celebrated economists suggests the Turnbull Government introduce an inheritance tax to help address rising wealth inequality, which is making it increasingly difficult for middle-income Australians to buy their own homes.
Topics: tax, government-and-politics, federal-government, housing, housing-industry, australia
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| UpdatedA panel of property experts offer their suggestions for how to ease the cost of housing in Australia after Treasurer Scott Morrison outlines his vision for increasing home ownership.
Topics: government-and-politics, housing, business-economics-and-finance, australia
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| UpdatedAs Treasurer Scott Morrison calls on state and territory governments to do more to stop house prices ballooning, take a look at what $600,000 can buy you around Australia.
Topics: government-and-politics, housing, sydney-2000, melbourne-3000, brisbane-4000, perth-6000, darwin-0800, hobart-7000, canberra-2600, adelaide-5000, dubbo-2830, whyalla-5600
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| UpdatedMorrison says buying a house getting harder
Topics: government-and-politics, scott-morrison, housing-industry, housing, australia
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CEO of the Urban Development Institute of Australia in Victoria, Danni Addison, says releasing more land and loosening planning laws could help homebuyers in Australia.
Topics: government-and-politics, housing-industry, housing, australia
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| UpdatedA visual and intimate depiction of 12 hours in the life of a Melbourne homeless man prompts an outpouring of support from the public, but the man at the heart of the story, Matte Dunn, says he is ambivalent about accepting financial help.
Topics: homelessness, community-and-society, housing, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedThe avocado industry is enjoying the new attention the fruit is getting, following accusations young Australians are being priced out of the property market because they spend too much money on brunch.
Topics: rural, housing-industry, housing, house-and-home, community-development, fruit, fruits, agricultural-prices, maroochydore-4558, bundaberg-4670
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A long-time Esperance community service manager says a lack of affordable housing and sustainable employment is driving an increase in poverty in regional WA.
Topics: poverty, social-policy, welfare, housing, esperance-6450
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| UpdatedA new plan for housing and infrastructure in south-east Queensland will ignore warnings about an over-supply of units and apartments, while trying to unlock land set aside for development.
Topics: activism-and-lobbying, public-sector, regional, regional-development, housing-industry, local-government, housing, brisbane-4000, qld, australia, maroochydore-4558, southport-4215, toowoomba-4350
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It's difficult. Really difficult. But here are some things to consider if you want to get your foot on the property ladder.
Topics: government-and-politics, housing, industry, housing-industry, australia
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| UpdatedAn alarming long-term decline in affordable housing is forcing welfare recipients to seek accommodation on the suburban fringes and fuelling the numbers of homeless people in Melbourne.
Topics: housing, government-and-politics, homelessness, community-and-society
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Young people actually take responsibility for their own financial decisions but they fail to learn from their parents about how to handle money, new research shows.
Topics: consumer-finance, business-economics-and-finance, youth, community-and-society, housing, government-and-politics, banking, australia
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| UpdatedCustomers of the New South Wales subsidiary of federal senator Bob Day's collapsed building company Home Australia, say they suspect the building empire was in financial trouble for months before its demise.
Topics: building-and-construction, industry, business-economics-and-finance, government-and-politics, housing, federal-government, nsw, australia
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The collapse of Senator Bob Day's building empire prompts calls for a national statutory reserve fund that will repay subcontractors left out of pocket when companies fail.
Topics: building-and-construction, industry, government-and-politics, states-and-territories, federal---state-issues, housing, housing-industry, sa, australia
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| UpdatedHundreds of people hoping to move into their dream homes face an uncertain future after Family First senator Bob Day's building company collapses, with thousands of subcontractors also facing huge losses.
Topics: building-and-construction, industry, business-economics-and-finance, government-and-politics, housing, federal-government, australia, craigburn-farm-5051, nsw, sa, vic, qld, wa
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| UpdatedBuilt for workers and once condemned as dark and dingy slums, Sydney's humble terraces may soon be back in fashion.
Topics: housing, government-and-politics, state-parliament, states-and-territories, parliament, community-and-society, urban-development-and-planning, glebe-2037, blacktown-2148, sydney-2000, nsw