Multi-storey boarding house plan to boost affordable homes in Wollongong CBD

Kate McIlwain
Updated May 30 2018 - 10:25am, first published April 16 2018 - 6:00pm
An artist's impression included in the report. Picture: Dreamscapes Architects P/L, from plans lodged by GAT and Associates Pty Ltd.
An artist's impression included in the report. Picture: Dreamscapes Architects P/L, from plans lodged by GAT and Associates Pty Ltd.

Housing affordability for low income workers in Wollongong has become a “serious and growing problem”, prompting a developer to pitch a plan to build what would become the city’s largest boarding house.

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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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