Podcast: Chandler’s army ready for inspections
Don’t know if Building Commissioner David Chandler has a hotline to Santa but with the Building Commission being boosted from 40 to 400 inspectors, you’d have to think all his Christmas…
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Demand for sustainable units unmet, says report
Australian apartment block developers need to build more sustainable buildings that appeal to the demands of a wider variety of longer-term buyers, including owner occupiers, ‘Build-to-rent’ investors and social housing…
Affordable housing – cost to strata committees?
One of the oft-proposed solutions to the current housing crisis is to encourage developers to build affordable and social housing as part of their strata schemes. In her first post…
Podcast: Hope for future in strata melting pot
Having braved the wilds of Scotland and the woes of Covid, we are back with a brand new Flat Chat Wrap podcast, with our usual mixture of optimism and, it…
From the Forum: Can we ban Social Housing tenants?
Here’s an issue that hasn’t raised its (very) ugly head for a while – what can you do about potentially disruptive social housing tenants who’ve been dumped in private residential…
How to plug in to your instant community
The word “community” gets thrown around strata these days, almost as much as the word “sharing” … only with less dire consequences. All cynicism aside, it’s possible to build strata…