Hundreds of households leave Queensland social housing after tenancy and rental review
Dozens of households have been kicked out of social housing in Queensland after being found to own property…
‘Appalling’: Dog left stranded in boarded-up social housing lot for five weeks in Sydney’s inner west
It’s a heartbreaking sight at a run-down social housing block in Sydney’s inner west. A friendly dog, wagging…
Despite barely any population growth, Tasmania doesn’t have enough houses
Tasmania’s population growth might be waning, but the small state still has a housing problem. Tasmania is predicted…
Albert Park residents resist public housing relocation plan that ‘doesn’t make sense’
Edwina Dawn Horwath’s top-floor apartment is filled with her framed drawings, stacked books, and glass decorations that hang…
Households evicted from public housing triples under Queensland’s new behaviour policy
Three times as many households were kicked out of public housing in the first year of Queensland’s new…
ACT government signs deal to buy CSIRO’s Ginninderra site, plans to build 3,000 new homes
The CSIRO and the ACT government have reached a deal for the long-awaited sale of the Ginninderra Experiment…
Pensioner living in car has ‘lost faith’ in system amid WA housing waitlist overhaul
A 68-year-old pensioner living in his car while waiting for social housing says he has “lost faith in…
Social housing lists grow as stock fails to keep up with population growth
Aged 71, Lynette Poole is very grateful to be living with her granddaughter. It means the disability pensioner…
Vacant and underused land to make way for housing in next phase of Queensland land activation program
The Queensland government has announced the next phase of its program to sell vacant and underused state-owned land…
Neighbours say excavations from a public housing project have caused their land to start slipping
Everybody needs good neighbours, but a state government housing project in Tasmania’s north-west is eroding the foundations of…
Some of Australia’s most isolated residents live with black mould and broken toilets in government housing
Inside one of Australia’s most isolated communities, bug infestations, walls covered in black mould and broken toilets are…
Tasmanian public housing tenants in unlivable and unhealthy conditions, and needing help from regulator
Dana Wing just wants her family to live in a house that doesn’t risk making them sick. For…