‘Our Incomes Don’t Match Housing’: Meet the People in NSW’s Missing Middle

Essential workers falling into housing 'missing middle'

Essential workers are sleeping in their cars because they cannot afford homes while advocates urge tourism to be placed second behind basic services.

‘Our incomes don’t match housing’: Meet the people in NSW’s missing middle

These are the forgotten workers who earn too much for affordable housing but not enough for soaring rents.

Can zoning reform fix it for 'missing middle'?

Will reforms such as the possibility of two-storey flat development, the ability to develop on blocks as small as 600sqm and to subdivide, result in a substantially increased supply and affordability?  (Bianca De Marchi/AAP PHOTOS) In this third column on the effects of zoning reform on ‘missing middle’ dwellings – duplexes, dual occupancies, townhouses and low-rise apartments – planning columnist MIKE QUIRK looks at land values and housing affo…