The makeshift solution for Sydney’s other housing crisis: nesting boxes for wildlife

Nesting boxes are being installed by the City of Sydney to serve as homes for wildlife where traditional habitats have been destroyed by urbanisation. Photograph: Supplied by the City of Sydney.

Two centuries of urbanisation has created a little-known housing crisis across inner Sydney.

As buildings went up, large trees that served as homes for cockatoos, owls, possums and bats have come down.