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People living on low incomes in coastal regions of NSW are faring just as badly as city dwellers as they hunt for an affordable roof over their head.
Topics: homelessness, community-and-society, poverty, housing, government-and-politics, nowra-2541, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedThe Victorian Government announces plans to rezone 100,000 housing blocks and create 17 new suburbs in Melbourne's key growth zones in an effort to tackle housing affordability.
Topics: housing, government-and-politics, states-and-territories, state-parliament, kalkallo-3064, vic, melbourne-3000
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One of Sydney's most prominent examples of brutalist architecture, the Sirius building at The Rocks, will be opened to the public for the first time in almost 40 years.
Topics: architecture, housing, community-and-society, the-rocks-2000, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedOne of Sydney's most prominent examples of brutalist architecture, the almost deserted Sirius building at The Rocks, is opened to the public for the first time in almost 40 years.
Topics: housing, architecture, arts-and-entertainment, community-and-society, the-rocks-2000, sydney-2000, nsw
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A 70-year-old pensioner wants Housing Tasmania to "wake up" and do the right thing by removing a wasp nest outside his bedroom window.
Topics: pests, state-parliament, housing, hobart-7000
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More than 500 university students would move into a 16-storey tower at Redfern's The Block under new plans lodged by the Aboriginal Housing Company.
Topics: housing, government-and-politics, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, indigenous-policy, redfern-2016
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Topics: university-and-further-education, housing, house-and-home, australian-national-university-0200, act, australia
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| UpdatedAs the Australian National University opens its new $53-million student accommodation block, other students say they are being locked out of the rental market by exorbitant pricing.
Topics: housing, university-and-further-education, australian-national-university-0200, canberra-2600, act, australia
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Don't believe anyone who claims they have an easy and painless way to make housing affordable; it just doesn't exist, writes the ABC's business editor Ian Verrender.
Topics: housing-industry, business-economics-and-finance, government-and-politics, housing, tax, australia
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Topics: mining-industry, housing-industry, housing, nhulunbuy-0880
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| UpdatedImagine if you could walk into a bank and secure a home loan with three years' worth of rental receipts instead of a deposit. It might sound crazy, but it's one suggestion that's been put forward by a federal MP for solving Australia's housing affordability crisis.
Topics: housing, business-economics-and-finance, housing-industry, australia
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| UpdatedWith the growing popularity of Gumtree and Facebook to find rental listings, younger renters can expose themselves to unseen risk if they choose to rent privately.
Topics: housing, housing-industry, youth, australia
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| UpdatedAn Indigenous organisation that provides services to town camps welcomes the announcement of an audit into a controversial management contract in Alice Springs.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, housing, government-and-politics, alice-springs-0870
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| UpdatedLet's just say the latest national snapshot of the state of renting a home in Australia does not paint a pretty picture. That's putting it lightly. It's dire.
Topics: housing, government-and-politics, housing-industry, industry, business-economics-and-finance, australia
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| UpdatedPeople with criminal records, single parents and pet owners are facing discrimination when it comes to renting in Tasmania, and there are reports of racial discrimination, a tenant's advocacy group says.
Topics: housing, government-and-politics, housing-industry, industry, business-economics-and-finance, tas
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| UpdatedThe nation's first national survey of housing tenants reveals renters in Australia have little security and lack the power to demand standard property maintenance.
Topics: housing, government-and-politics, housing-industry, industry, business-economics-and-finance, australia
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| UpdatedA stoush about housing affordability erupts in Parliament after the Premier announces she has hired former Reserve Bank governor Glenn Stevens to advise her Government on the issue.
Topics: state-parliament, housing, nsw
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Two Perth arts projects are exploring alternative ideas of housing; one a tent that is a faithful replica of a car, the other a foil-wrapped van.
Topics: contemporary-art, installation, homelessness, housing, human-interest, perth-6000, applecross-6153
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| UpdatedIt's easy to see why young Australians might feel like they'll never catch up to rising house prices. But there are ideas out there for dealing with the problem. We've listed the pros and cons of some of the top suggestions.
Topics: housing, housing-industry, australia
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Almost anywhere you go in Canberra you will see cranes dotting the skyline, building the city's next hulking apartment towers. But is an oversupply likely, and is that a bad thing?
Topics: housing, community-and-society, canberra-2600, act
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| UpdatedStaying cool in the heatwave this weekend is definitely about substance over style, but scientists reveal some parts of Brisbane are certainly cooler than others.
Topics: phenomena, housing, housing-industry, building-and-construction, urban-development-and-planning, brisbane-4000
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A controversial housing project in Sydney's North West is put on ice because of the traffic congestion it will cause.
Topics: housing, government-and-politics, hornsby-2077
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In New South Wales, there is a growing push to change the rules so that landlords are prohibited from adding a 'no pets' clause to a lease.
Topics: housing-industry, housing, animals, nsw
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Emergency accommodation is being erected in Kalgoorlie-Boulder for about 80 residents from the remote Aboriginal community of Tjuntjuntjara who have been stranded due to widespread flooding.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, aboriginal, emergency-incidents, floods, weather, housing, charities-and-community-organisations, volunteers, community-and-society, kalgoorlie-6430, boulder-6432
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| UpdatedPapua New Guinea's opposition leader says the people evicted from part of Port Moresby's Morata settlement back in November and December still have not been resettled or received any compensation.
Topics: housing, pacific, papua-new-guinea