Prices up 1.7% nationwide, driven by Sydney and Melbourne, with rises of 2.7% and 2.2% respectively. House prices surged 1.7% across Australia in November, the rapidly reviving market recording the biggest...
It is tasked with tiding over unemployed Australians until they can find work, but new research suggests Centrelink is putting vulnerable people at risk of homelessness. The Homeward Bound report, released...
Residents of a remote Indigenous community near Alice Springs are taking a legal fight about the right to “humane” housing to the supreme court, in a case that could prompt widespread housing reform in...
Australia’s newly built homes are the smallest they have been in 17 years, while new apartments are getting slightly bigger, research shows. Homes are now 1.3 per cent smaller than they were a year ago,...
Times are tough. People are having trouble finding secure work, the housing crisis is reaching new heights and the realities of climate change are starting to be felt across the country. Most...
Research finds children are ending up in out-of-home care simply because they don’t have a safe place to stay. Indigenous women and children have so few ways to escape domestic and family violence that...
There has been a 37 per cent increase of older people using homelessness services since 2013, according to new research that has prompted calls for a boost to social housing investment. A report from the...
A new affordable housing high-rise development in Woolloongabba has been recommended for approval by Brisbane City Council. The development, put forward by not-for-profit Brisbane Housing Company, will add...
The Stirling prize-winning Norwich estate is the tip of the iceberg: despite government cuts, local authorities are finding innovative ways to build housing. A crescent of semi-detached houses stands on...
If we built the houses we needed, the anxieties and fears that motivated the Brexit vote would at last recede. Over the past three years, commentary about the nervous, uncertain condition of Britain has...