‘It’s Up to Us’: squeezed by the housing crisis, a NSW rural community finds its own solution

Alex Scott and daughter Prudence, four, at their newly purchased home in Bega. Photograph: Rachel Mounsey/The Guardian

About two years ago Michael Brosnan decided he could no longer wait for the government to act on the housing crisis.

As more and more people were squeezed into homelessness in his community on the far south coast of New South Wales, he and other locals decided to start a fundraiser.