Affordable housing
A Minns Labor Government will make it easier for renters to have a pet in New South Wales, by introducing a new fairer and more streamlined application process.
Affordable housing
New South Wales is facing a housing and rental crisis, with Sydney rent now accounting for 70 per cent of the median income.
Affordable housing
Father Chris Riley's Youth Off the Streets is a wonderful not for‑profit organisation which has been doing crucial work since 1991.
Affordable housing
The past few months of La Nina have been incredibly difficult for the people of New South Wales. Most obviously, floods in the Northern Rivers and across Sydney have devastated communities. A less visible problem has been the scourge of mould.
Affordable housing
Over the last week, our news feeds and TV screens have been flooded with the horror of the fatal boarding house fire on Albermarle Street, Newtown.
Affordable housing
In many cases, the boarding house developments currently before our councils are not actually boarding houses but rather shoebox apartments no bigger than jail cells, without rent controls or other oversight to ensure they are housing the people who need the most support.
Affordable housing
Older women are the fastest growing group of homeless people in Australia. A recent study estimated that 240,000 women aged 55 or older are at risk of homelessness nationally, as are another 165,000 women aged 45-55.
Affordable housing
A question to the Government on the $140 million rental hardship package.
Affordable housing
Inner west tenants and landlords have been left in the lurch by the NSW Government’s rental package, with only 16% of landlords covered by land tax relief measures and tenants who have lost their livelihoods through Covid-19 lumped with potentially huge debt bombs through rent deferrals.
Affordable housing
A question to the Minister of Innovation and Better Regulation.