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Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore said the city risked losing its “famous egalitarianism” because of the housing affordability crisis.

Unlikely alliance pushes for more medium-density housing of the sort typically found in inner-city suburbs

The latest industry figures show a further decline in new home sales but some builders are tapping new markets of customers seeking smaller homes.

But no-one asked two key questions on the same day there was a National Cabinet housing summit: why do we have so many homeless (that a signal box is a home); and why is there no agency to look after the homeless (and their welfare)? Our PM, spruiking more homes for the middle classes to buy, ignores the issue and if pressed would say it’s a states’ problem, which it most likely is, but where are the states?

Blacktown’s Kerry Robinson warns rates would need to rise by 40% to pay for community facilities for more than 250,000 expected new residents

There is intense pushback from the property industry over a signature NSW Labor policy to incentivise private developers to provide more of the affordable housing the city so badly needs.

There is intense pushback from the property industry over a signature NSW Labor policy to incentivise private developers to provide more of the affordable housing the city so badly needs.

There is intense pushback from the property industry over a signature NSW Labor policy to incentivise private developers to provide more of the affordable housing the city so badly needs.

The NSW premier’s plans to let developers build higher and denser, in return for affordable and social housing, have been branded “impractical and unfeasible”.

Premier Chris Minns says the changes will speed up housing supply.