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Dysart’s most famous building the University of Technology, Sydney Tower.

Architect much more than creator of brutalist UTS Tower

Michael Dysart was one of Australia’s most significant architects, designing everything from universities to hundreds of schools, and reshaping the project home market.

  • Tone Wheeler

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Social housing resident Warren Brygel says Chapel Street has changed for the worse.

The Chapel Street sanctuary providing so much to those with so little

In a warm cafe on Chapel Street, Elene has found sanctuary away from the drugs and chaos. The trouble is, she has to go home.

  • Cassandra Morgan
Public housing towers at 150 Victoria Avenue, Albert Park.

State defies inquiry over secrecy of $12 billion public tower knock-down plan

The government has flatly rejected a parliamentary inquiry’s recommendation that it immediately halt a controversial 25-year demolition program for 44 public housing towers until it hands over feasibility plans.

  • Rachael Dexter
The houses will be built by Housing for Change on an unused part of the Brisbane City Council depot in Zillmere.

Brisbane council depot land bought for community housing for women

Subsidised housing will be offered to women in need, following a land deal the not-for-profit developer described as a “miracle”.

  • William Davis
Gail Innes and her daughter Laura have been offered two houses by Homes Victoria, but neither are viable options.

Public housing, private trap: The tenants facing $4000 rent hikes

A legal loophole and administrative fault left Gayle and Laura severed from public housing and facing a $4000-a-month rent hike and a July eviction.

  • Rachael Dexter
Jim Chalmers during question time.

A budget that meets the moment but doesn’t yet prepare for the future

Long-awaited action on taxes producing perverse outcomes is to be welcomed but there is still much to be done to boost the economy and repair the budget.

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More than two dozen people have set up semi-permanent residence in Wilks Park and near Wagga beach, where a woman gave birth.

Nineteen years old, Mia is sleeping rough near the makeshift camp where a newborn died

The young woman is just one of dozens of people making their homes in tents in riverside parks around Wagga Wagga.

  • Amber Schultz
The Murrumbidgee River in Wagga Wagga.

Death in a homeless camp is the other side of the housing crisis

A baby has died in a homeless camp in Wagga Wagga, a regional city that is experiencing a property boom.

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Buildings range from two storeys up to a maximum of 33 storeys. Taller buildings will be located along the edges of the precinct and spaced apart to protect sunlight, views and amenity.

Hundreds of inner Sydney homes to be bulldozed for 3300 units 

The $4 billion Waterloo project is Australia’s largest social housing renewal, and will displace thousands of residents – but the new homes won’t be built for another decade.

  • Cindy Yin
One of the homes in a camp on the bank of the Murrumbidgee River.

A mother had been living in a tent for months. Then she went into labour

The 37-year-old who gave birth to twins, one of whom did not survive, had been living in at a makeshift camp amid a regional NSW housing shortage.

  • Amber Schultz