$18m in public housing sales funds 55 new Illawarra homes

Kate McIlwain
Updated January 20 2017 - 7:35am, first published 6:30am
Prime position: A public housing cluster at Bellambi Point is among the waterfront areas some Illawarra residents believe should be sold. Inset: Sell-off figures from 2014-15 and 2015-16 financial years.
Prime position: A public housing cluster at Bellambi Point is among the waterfront areas some Illawarra residents believe should be sold. Inset: Sell-off figures from 2014-15 and 2015-16 financial years.

The NSW Opposition has called out what they say is an “astonishing” increase in public housing sales over the past two years, including $18 million in sales from the Illawarra.

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Kate McIlwain

Kate McIlwain

Journalist

For more than a decade, I've helped the Illawarra Mercury set the news agenda across the region. Currently I'm the paper's health reporter - covering the stories of Illawarra workers and residents in the wake of a global pandemic and at a time where our health systems are stretched to the limit.

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