Professionals seeking affordable housing are displacing those at risk of homelessness as rents soar
We have people every week turn up here and say, ‘I don’t have anywhere to go. I can’t afford the rent any more.'In response, her team faced an “internal dilemma” by raising its longtime upper threshold of “low cost” from $250 to $350 a week. Even with the adjustment, this week’s list contains just 22 entries.
The property at 117 Probert Street is registered as a General Registrable Boarding House with the NSW Accommodation Register. Once registered as a boarding house, there are significant barriers to reversing the registration and converting the building for other uses. Cathy Callaghan, senior policy officer at Shelter, welcomed new NSW housing regulations that stipulate new boarding houses must be affordable and run by community housing providers, but they do not apply to boarding houses that predate the 2021 legislation.
The effect is a large and growing category of homeless people who are living in severely overcrowded buildings.
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