3500 Illawarra residents with ‘nowhere safe and decent to live’

Kate McIlwain
Updated August 30 2017 - 8:41am, first published August 29 2017 - 4:00pm
'We have to do something': Housing Trust CEO Michelle Adairs highlighted the stark figures on housing in the Illawarra on Tuesday night. Picture: Adam McLean.
'We have to do something': Housing Trust CEO Michelle Adairs highlighted the stark figures on housing in the Illawarra on Tuesday night. Picture: Adam McLean.

As dozens of council candidates sat in Wollongong’s Housing Trust headquarters on Tuesday night, 3500 people across the Illawarra “had nowhere safe and decent to live”.

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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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