Knock down a few, build one: in NSW that counts as a gain for councils’ housing targets
by Tamsin Rose and Elias Visontay from World news | The Guardian on (#6EJ7T)
Exclusive: Metrics reflect gross addition to supply, even as unit blocks in affluent Sydney suburbs are being replaced by luxury single properties
Luxury homes built on the site of former unit blocks in Sydney are counting towards council targets for new dwellings, even where they have reduced the available housing stock by displacing multiple properties.
A swathe of interwar apartment buildings in Sydney's eastern suburbs and inner city face the wrecking ball, to be replaced with modern residences, as Guardian Australia revealed on Wednesday.
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