Professionals seeking affordable housing are displacing those at risk of homelessness as rents soar
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When a boarding house in Sydney’s inner-west was razed by arson last year, taking with it the lives of three residents and leaving eight without homes, the hope was that it would be replaced with a newer, safer version of the same low-cost community housing.
But 12 months is a long time in Sydney’s rampant rental market.
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