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The existing public housing, which was purpose-built to provide liveable, community space, will be demolished by developers and replaced with 70%

buildings are to be replaced by three high-rise apartment towers. The sizeable garden areas within the estate will become roads. And the community that’s developed within the complex — that received a design award in the past — will be destroyed. The new apartment blocks are set to contain 425 dwellings. The 108 public housing units will be replaced by 130 “social housing” units. Yet, when the math is done, this doesn’t mean there will be more social housing tenants than there currently are. The New South Wales government is promoting the new units as “social housing”. However...

'I find it horrific': Tenants in limbo over public housing revamp plan Normal text size Advertisement More than 100 public housing tenants in inner-city Glebe have been plunged into uncertainty as the Berejiklian government pushes to demolish their homes for a new development with hundreds of private apartments. The government wants to force residents from the Franklyn Street estate, near Broadway shopping centre, and rebuild it with 425 dwellings, 70 per cent of which would be private residences and the remainder social housing. Artist Emily Bullock has decorated her apartment in Glebe over ...