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Nicole Cook, Lecturer, School of Geography and Sustainable Communities, University of Wollongong

Wanted: family-friendly apartments. But what do families want from apartments?

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The family-friendly apartment is an idea whose time has come. In the Liverpool CBD in Sydney, for example, half the apartments are occupied by families with children, our newly published study found. This is twice the average for metropolitan Sydney.

The high proportion of families living in apartments in town centres like Liverpool is often overlooked when situated within suburbs dominated by detached, lower-density dwellings.

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