The Inner West Council has a plan to turn four of its council car parks into 200 affordable homes for essential workers. Experts say there is a desperate need for homes to house key workers who can't afford to live where they work but such projects are not a quick fix.
Car parks in Sydney's inner ring are being eyed off in a bid to find any land that could be repurposed to build much-needed affordable homes.
Catherine Gilbert says that for people who work in occupations like policing and teaching, being embedded in their community is essential.Catherine Gilbert, a lecturer in urbanism at the University of Sydney who did the analysis, said essential workers were being pushed out to the metropolitan fringe and beyond, to the Illawarra and Central Coast.
For registered nurses wanting to buy a flat at the median price, there were no areas that were affordable. The Inner West Council announced back in 2015 that it would turn its Hay Street car park in Leichhardt into affordable housing, but the first brick is yet to be laid. Nicole Woodrow, chief growth and innovation officer for Link Wentworth, says building affordable housing is complex.Nicole Woodrow, chief growth and innovation officer for Link Wentworth, said engaging with councils to build affordable housing was complex."You can't just go in there and and do something in a year. You know, it takes years to do, to get approvals, takes years to actually build stuff. It's years and years," she said.
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