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Tag: informal housing

illegal housing
Posted inHousing

Informal and illegal housing on the rise as our cities fail to offer affordable places to live

by Nicole Gurran, Madeleine Pill and Sophia Maalsen, University of Sydney 30 April 20191 May 2019

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