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From her Melbourne living room, Talika Thomas created SheShare – Australia’s first women’s only flatmate platform for all ages.

A man kept asking his flatmate on dates. Talika’s idea might fix the problem

Years of soaring property prices have meant the age of renters extend well beyond young adults and into new generations. But for women, it can come with additional hurdles.

  • Cassandra Morgan

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The three-storey block of flats. Can an old idea be new again?

To fix housing, we must try something radical. Here are three ideas to shift the dial

Australia already has more homes than households. It’s just that too many of our homes cannot house the people who need them.

  • Tone Wheeler
One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce was caught short on Sky News last night when Andrew Bolt pressed him for details of the party’s call to outlaw foreign ownership of housing in Australia.
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Barnaby Joyce trips up on Sky News over foreign ownership ban

One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce was caught short on Sky News last night when Andrew Bolt pressed him for details of the party’s call to outlaw foreign ownership of housing in Australia.

  • Michelle Griffin
Barnaby Joyce returns to Sky News to correct previous comments made about One Nation's housing policy.
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Barnaby Joyce clarifies comments on housing

Barnaby Joyce returns to Sky News to correct previous comments made about One Nation's housing policy.

  • Michelle Griffin
The site of Bankstown Airport.

Revealed: The secret plan to turn this Sydney airport into housing, extend metro

The Bankstown Airport operator has spoken with both state and federal governments.

  • Michael Koziol and Anthony Segaert
Opposition Leader Angus Taylor has defended his “mass migration” rhetoric, insisting he is blaming the government, not migrant communities.

Taylor’s ‘historic’ migration cut could amount to just 5 per cent

Labor’s housing and migration projections nearly converge by 2028, posing a challenge to the opposition leader’s vow to slash migration.

  • Brittany Busch
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Richard Szabatura in his caravan in Dingley Village.

‘Nowhere to go’: Residents fear the future as caravan park makes way for housing

The park’s owner wants to build a residential village, which will force the park’s permanent residents to move. They fear they’ll be homeless before the end of winter.

  • Carolyn Webb
Economist and Sydney YIMBY (Yes in My Backyard) secretary Dominic Behrens.

The ‘affordable’ housing policies that subsidised a rental unit listed for $925 a week

Billions spent on delivering more affordable units are being targeted at middle income earners rather than social homes for the genuinely needy.

  • Adam Carey
Bedding in Fitzroy Street, St Kilda.

‘This will really hurt’: Council to confiscate belongings from homeless in St Kilda

Council officers in the City of Port Phillip are preparing to confiscate the personal belongings of people experiencing homelessness, under new local laws.

  • Cara Waters
Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner speaks at a Property Council of Australia lunch in Brisbane on Tuesday.

Lord mayor slams federal tax reforms, flags zoning changes to boost housing supply

Adrian Schrinner also told a Property Council lunch there were 14,000 fewer rentals on the market in Brisbane today than five years ago.

  • William Davis