A Sydney Skyscraper Reveals Election Battle Lines Over Housing
- Housing affordability is shaping up as a key election issue
- Labor wants more apartments, Coalition want standalone homes
In Sydney’s outer suburban hub of Parramatta, an overgrown patch of land sandwiched between the train station and a Westfield mall is emblematic of the battle lines forming around the future of housing and who will run Australia.
Urban Property Group, a developer, is planning to build on the site a 46-story tower of build-to-rent housing, a previously uncommon type of accommodation in Australia where renters pay a company rather than an individual landlord.