The main politics and trends in strata living
Renters are being driven out of our major city centres, with students, pensioners and low-income workers especially suffering in the current affordability crisis, according to the annual National Shelter-SGS Economics…
Charging lithium-ion batteries inside apartments is rapidly becoming a burning issue for strata committees and fireys. It seems a day doesn’t go by without another eBike or electric scooter battery…
At the first AGM of a new apartment block, owners are expected to approve all sorts of contracts – but what if they are being misinformed, misled and ripped off?…
The Victorian Greens have put demands for curbs on short-term holiday lets like Airbnb at the heart of their push for reform of the state’s housing policy. And they are…
Between the dire warnings of the doom-scrollers and the blinkered “she’ll-be-right” vision of climate denialists, it’s hard to know what the coming summer will bring in terms of crisis and…
There’s a growing body of opinion that low-rise apartment blocks could provide a compromise solution to the housing crisis – if only Nimby councils would allow them. Once upon a…
If you’re old enough to remember growing up in Australian suburbia surrounded by houses on quarter acre blocks, you should remember the Fonze from Happy Days. He was part of…
You often hear politicians accusing each other of “playing games” with social and economic policy – especially when it comes to housing. But you have to wonder, if that were…
OPINION There’s a story in the ABC TV’s business report about how an apartment owner who’s had a run of rotten luck has just had everything made worse by her…
With allegations of ‘blind” voting exacerbated by language barriers at one blighted block in Melbourne, there have been calls for strata information and forms to be printed in the native…
NSW strata schemes that have flammable cladding on their walls have just over a week left to register for the state government’s Project Remediate program which offers affected buildings interest-free…
As if the former residents of Mascot Towers in Sydney weren’t doing it tough enough, last month they received another blow and it’s one that smacks of local government incompetence,…