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Overcrowding? We have no choice

Macquarie University students say they know of cases where nine people live in a house, but only after the greedy sub-lessor put some of them in the garage.
Northern District Times, 25/08/2010

Pets abandoned as rental market heats up

Thousands of animals across the country are being abandoned every year because landlords are unwilling to rent homes to people with pets, the RSPCA says.
ABC News 19/08/2010

Rents leap as race to find homes intensifies

Rents for two- and three-bedroom homes in Sydney's inner suburbs have leapt in recent months, a clear sign the dampening effect of the global financial crisis has ended.
Sydney Morning Herald, 18/08/2010

Nothing new on offer since houses that Kevin built

There may have been more pressing issues than housing affordability at the 2007 election, but not many. Which makes it all the more remarkable that three years later there has been so little focus on housing by Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott.
Sydney Morning Herald, 06/08/2010

Risk factors for homeless women widening

Leaving school early, having children at a young age and a widening gender pay gap are risk factors for homelessness among older, single women, research has found.
Syndey Morning Herald, 03/08/2010

Project to tackle regional homelessness

A unique $284 million action plan will tackle homelessness at a regional level right across NSW, the state government says.
Sydney Morning Herald, 01/08/2010

Homeless families are being turned away

Homeless families seeking accommodation are being turned away from shelters because of a shortage of beds, according to a report by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.
Sydney Morning Herald, 22/07/2010

Older women forced into homelessness

Rising rents, family breakdown and the economic downturn have pushed more older women into the ranks of the homeless.
ABC News, 08/07/2010

Good news for Tweed's homeless

The Tweed area will receive $4.5 million over four years to help fight homelessness.
Tweed Daily News, 07/07/2010

Rent rises flow on to affect the homeless

Landlords cash in on Hunter rental shortage

Landloards are taking advantage of the Hunter’s housing crisis with a boom in unregistered rooming houses across the region.
Newcastle Herald, 05/07/2010

Homeless numbers on the rise

Sydney has just recorded some of its coldest nights for decades, with temperatures below freezing in some outer western suburbs. The cold snap couldn't have come at a worse time according to welfare groups who say hard times are forcing record numbers of people onto the streets.
ABC News, 30/06/2010

Homelessness surges as GFC continues to bite

The number of homeless people seeking help from the Salvation Army has surged by 65 per cent in New South Wales and doubled in the ACT since the global financial crisis took hold, the charity has found.
ABC News, 29/06/2010

New housing boost for seniors at St Marys

Retirement housing in St Marys is expected to receive a boost when 20 new units are built.
Mt Druitt St Marys Standard, 27/06/2010

20yrs of poor policy blamed for housing crisis

The release of the 2010-11 State of the Regions Report has sparked a a debate over whether local, state or federal governments are responsible for Australia's housing affordability crisis.
ABC News, 16/06/2010

Public housing sold off in Orange

More than 20 homes in Orange have been sold as part of a plan to reduce the concentration of public housing.
ABC News, 09/06/2010

Discounts to lure buyers to public housing

Public housing estates in 10 Sydney suburbs will be rejuvenated, old buildings demolished, new roads built and first-home buyers enticed into communities with discounts.
Sydney Morning Herald, 07/06/2010

Landlords gain in rent overhaul

Landlords will be able to exert greater control over who moves into shared households under proposed changes to residential tenancy laws.
Sydney Morning Herald, 03/06/2010

Blacktown rent still affordable

Rental costs in Blacktown have increased by three times the cost of inflation but the area still has the cheapest accommodation in Sydney, it has been claimed.
Blacktown Advocate, 31/05/2010

Low cost, not low returns: affordable housing

"Affordable" housing is not only a subject of national debate -- and on the wishlist of many a young family -- it is a potential new investment category.
The Australian, 26/05/2010

US plan eyed for remote housing

The Rudd government will investigate community land trusts, used widely in the US, among other radical new ideas to increase home ownership by Aborigines. Community land trusts provide cheaper housing for indigenous people who want to buy homes on collectively owned land.
The Australian, 24/05/2010

Outer suburbs feel the pinch as rents continue to rise

Average weekly rents in Sydney have increased to $400 a week, an increase of $10 since last year.
Sydney Morning Herald, 19/05/2010

Caravan park saved

The Lismore Tourist Caravan Park has been given a reprieve with councillors voting to reject a staff recommendation to permanently close the park. Instead, work will be undertaken to negate the worst effects of future floods while a social impact study is conducted on the effects of a possible closure.
Northern Star, 13/05/2010

Students are at real risk of homelessness

Ryde Cr Gabrielle O’Donnell has accused Marsfield residents of forgetting the needs of international students and kicking them out on to the streets.
Northern District Times, 12 May 2010

Byron wants land for caravan park

Two councils on the Northern Rivers seem to be taking two radically different approaches to the issue of caravan parks.
Northern Star, 11/05/2010

Tenants vulnerable under planned law: union

Most landlords agree they should have to provide a valid reason for terminating a lease and increasing rents but tenants' advocates say proposed changes to legislation ignore these issues.
Sydney Morning Herald, 07/05/2010

Making the lot of tenants a happy one

The Tenants' Union of NSW urges the NSW Government to introduce the new residential tenancies bill.
Sydney Morning Herald, 06/05/2010

From ghetto to grove, a housing success story

The strategy of razing an entire public housing estate, dispersing tenants and selling the land to private buyers is considered so successful that the government plans to repeat it in other troubled suburbs across the state.
Sydney Morning Herald, 29/04/2010

Canterbury housing is ‘poorest’ in the nation

Canterbury families are copping some of the poorest living conditions in Australia because of the state’s public housing overhaul that encourages high density, a community worker says.
Canterbury-Bankstown Express, 27/04/2010

Homes too costly for welfare recipients

Young people, single parents and the unemployed all strulle to find an affordable rental home, a major charity says.
Ninemsn.com, 27/04/10

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