Glebe is the latest inner-city suburb to become victim of a LAHC land grab. Christopher Kelly reports. Here we go again — inner-city public housing tenants being turfed out of…
Posted In: #138 Autumn 2021, Affordable Housing, Archive, Planning Campaigns, Public Housing,
When the NSW government put Sirius up for sale, it signalled the end for one of Australia’s greatest public housing projects. Christopher Kelly reports. It’s as polarising as Vegemite. As…
Posted In: #138 Autumn 2021, Archive, Public Housing,
After every major war and depression there has been a push worldwide to address the resulting housing crisis. Unfortunately — as Tone Wheeler chronicles — Australia has missed, or misused,…
Posted In: #138 Autumn 2021, Archive, Public Housing – Redevelopment, Social Housing,
The social housing residents of the Waterloo estate have been promised that they will be rehoused once it is redeveloped. But, as Laura Wynne and Dallas Rogers discuss, an absence…
Posted In: #136 Spring 2020, Aboriginal Issues, Public Housing, Public Housing - Waterloo, Social Housing,
The human stories behind the Waterloo estate. GERARD VIRGONA, 55, MARTON BUILDING Gerard enjoys a sweeping vista of Sydney from his apartment, but he’s not one to be preoccupied by…
Posted In: #136 Spring 2020, Public Housing,
In July, the Victorian government placed more than 3,000 residents of nine public housing towers in inner Melbourne under a police-enforced hard lockdown. Here, they describe the experience. TEKESTE There…
Posted In: #136 Spring 2020, Public Housing,
The Victorian government’s response to the COVID outbreak in the Melbourne public housing towers received much criticism. Here, FRED FUENTES explains how the debacle was allowed to happen. The rapidness…
Posted In: #136 Spring 2020, Public Housing,
State and local services have been talking through possible emergency scenarios in public housing high-rises trying to identify who is actually responsible in different situations. Peter Murphy looks at the…
Posted In: #133 Autumn 2018, Community Safety, Public Housing,
A Compact would represent an agreement about how urban renewal is conducted in social housing areas, and how social housing tenants were to be treated and engaged. Bernie Coates explains…
Posted In: #132 Winter 2017, Community Engagement, Housing Types and Issues, Planning for People and Social Issues, Public Housing, Public Housing – Redevelopment, Urban Development,