Boarding house owners' change to their business model suggest the laws protecting the rights of residents are not working.
Ben Vaoa realised he was being booted out of his Sydney boarding house in favour of students when an advertisement appeared on Facebook.
"I was so angry with the establishment and I didn't want to see people at the lodge just end up on the street, you know what I mean? It was just horrific. It was, you know, a lot of people were traumatised." Dulwich Hill boarding house before knockdown / Artist's impression of new homes on the boarding house site.In response to the criteria regarding whether the development would reduce the amount of affordable housing in the area, the owners of the Dulwich Hill property said there had been a 16 per cent increase in social housing rental stock between 2016 and 2021.
"We need to say no to development applications which are getting rid of diverse housing stock, which are turning boarding houses into luxury dwelling for millionaires," he said. Before: The boarding house before it was demolished.. . After: The new boarding house after rebuilding.. .Disability support and aged pensions pay $558 per week and Jobseeker $381, putting the new studios well out of reach of low-income people.
However, they said some local councils, like the City of Sydney, had implemented policies to ensure that the approximate same number of homes were retained on sites during redevelopment, which would deter the loss of smaller, more affordable homes in strata developments.There were more than 1,100 registered boarding houses in NSW as of January 2020, with an estimated 25 to 100 per cent more in the unregistered illegal sector, according to a government review of the Boarding Houses Act.
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