Opposition is mounting to the Labor-controlled Inner West Council’s developer-friendly, high-rise housing plan, which only provides for 2% of “affordable” housing and would degrade the living environment. Hall Greenland reports.
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Two hundred people joined a spirited protest outside the Inner West Council’s extraordinary meeting, demanding it scrap its pro-developer plan. Rachel Evans reports.
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Disabled people are furious at NSW Labor’s failure to implement even basic recommendations of the Disability Royal Commission, the National Disability Insurance Scheme review and countless NSW Housing and Ombudsman reports, writes Suzanne James.
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As developers hoover up public housing and the rental market boils dry, housing insecurity has become the new normal. But is the latest cheap home loan, high density model proposed by the YIMBY movement really the answer? Suzanne James investigates.
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Tasmanians saw through the major parties’ spin and neither achieved a majority. Solomon Doyle argues it is clear people want systemic solutions to the worsening housing, healthcare and ecological destruction crises.
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Pas Forgione reports that, after nearly three and a half years in office, South Australian Labor has barely made a dent in the state’s acute housing shortage.
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Boffins, bosses and the ACTU will discuss making the economy more “productive” in the upcoming Economic Reform Roundtable, but their main aim will be to find ways to protect the wealth of those who already have it. Graham Matthews reports.
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Labor is coming under growing pressure to wind back negative gearing and capital gains tax exemptions to address the housing affordability crisis. Isaac Nellist reports.
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A protest was called to oppose Victorian Labor’s destruction and privatisation of 44 public housing towers. Jacob Andrewartha reports.
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Hundreds of residents rallied in Marrickville to protest the pro-developer planning proposals being floated by the Labor-controlled Inner West Council. Hall Greenland reports.
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Abundance has been attracting attention and debate among mainstream economists and politicians. But the book directs its sights towards planning regulations as the obstacle to abundance, not to the real blockages imposed by vested interests, argues Michael Roberts.
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Housing activists took to the streets in Glebe to show opposition to New South Wales Labor’s demolition plans for public housing sites. Kerry Smith reports.