Hundreds of private and social housing apartments will be built on an empty block of land in Sydney’s inner south, despite a community push for the site to be retained for public dwellings
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Plans to redevelop the land, which is vacant except for the Redfern Police and Citizens Youth Club on the corner of Phillip Street, have stoked tensions between the government, residents and the City of Sydney.The Perrottet government is reshaping vast swathes of Redfern and Waterloo by demolishing ageing public housing blocks and building thousands of apartments around transport hubs.
Newtown Greens MP Jenny Leong and housing advocacy groups, including Shelter NSW and Action for Public Housing, have been campaigning for the government to retain the Redfern block entirely for public housing.
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