A major public housing site in inner-city Sydney is to be redeveloped to deal with escalating numbers of people sleeping rough.
The Glebe area has recorded a 23 percent increase in residents forced to take refuge in cars or on the streets.
Tenants of public housing apartments at 82 Wentworth Park Road in the suburb will be temporarily moved out while it is demolished and rebuilt from 17 units into 43 one- and two-bedroom apartments.
New South Wales (NSW) Minister for Housing and Homelessness Rose Jackson said on Saturday the government needed to work quickly to address the dire state of social housing in inner Sydney….