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The Guardian - AU · Feb 16

‘It’s a shock’: if you think Adelaide housing is affordable, think again

According to a new report, the South Australian capital is now Australia’s second-least affordable city after the perennially expensive Sydney

The Guardian - AU · May 31, 2025

Tracy is about to begin chemo and she’s also getting evicted. Welcome to Australia’s housing crisis

The 63-year-old, who may have to live in a camper van, wants to see the major political parties do more for older Australians

The Guardian - AU · Apr 28, 2025

Homes on steroids: how Australia came to build some of the biggest houses on Earth

My family of four lives in a home that 90 years ago housed a family of 11. How have our ideas of enough changed over the years?

The Guardian - AU · Mar 8, 2024

A quarter of Australia’s property investments held by 1% of taxpayers, data reveals

Exclusive: Taxation office figures also show a clear majority of those investors are over the age of 50

The Guardian - AU · Jun 3, 2023

How you could rent your way to buying a first home

Fewer young people have the means to buy their first home, but is there a way to shortcut a failing system?

360info · May 28, 2023

It's touted as one solution to Australia's housing crisis, but what is build-to-rent? And can it live up to the hype?

Is it possible to have affordable housing and good rental conditions in Australia? It has to be something embedded by design, housing researchers say.

ABC News · Apr 6, 2023

Michael Pascoe: Not being Scott Morrison isn’t enough in a crisis

Not being Scott Morrison was enough to make Anthony Albanese Prime Minister. It is not enough to handle the three immediate crises.

The New Daily · Mar 21, 2023

Homelessness up 22 per cent in Queensland, almost three times the national increase

Hasel Liu is a single father, and one of the thousands of faces of Queensland's drastically deteriorating homelessness crisis.

ABC News · Mar 19, 2023

The NSW Coalition said it 'slashed' the social housing waitlist. Is that correct?

New South Wales Treasurer Matt Kean says the state's social housing waitlists been "slashed" since the Coalition came to power. But is that really the case? RMIT ABC Fact Check crunches the numbers.

ABC News · Mar 8, 2023