The Sydney street fighting to keep affordable homes – for 50 years

“With a state-significant development, affordable housing is also defined as 75 per cent below the market rate, which is a very wishy-washy figure, when we say it should be 30 per cent of someone’s income, and in perpetuity rather than five to 15 years,” Miller said.

“In practice, this isn’t policed either. It could be someone’s mates being put in there for a discount, as it’s not administered by an outside agency. I think if Juanita Nielsen was around now, she would be shocked and dismayed at the way this struggle for affordable housing has gone.”