Sangeeta Kocharekar is a Sydney-based writer who was born in Washington DC. She is former Lifestyle Editor of PopSugar Australia and The Latch

She has also written for titles including Escape, Delicious, BedThreads, news.com.au, Nine Travel, as well as the in-flight magazines of Qantas, Virgin and Jetstar.

Her passions include travelling, hotels, wellness, fashion, beauty, pop culture, and living by the beach in Bondi.

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Sydney's Inner West is getting 30,000 new affordable homes

Sydney's Inner West is getting 30,000 new affordable homes

When it comes to Sydney’s housing affordability crisis, things tend to get contentious.  Whether you’re feeling worn out by Saturday mornings spent traipsing around dingy apartments with rents that make you want to cry, given up on the dream of ever buying because you can barely afford a car spot, or, as some members of the Inner West community are feeling, enraged at the prospect of your neighbourhood changing forever because of a major new development, you can probably agree on one thing: Sydney’s housing situation is less than ideal.  In an effort to address this, Inner West Council recently passed ‘Our Fairer Future’ plan, which aims to deliver 20,000 to 30,000 new homes to the Inner West over the next 15 years. This decision was met with significant community backlash in the Inner West, with local residents concerned that the ‘Fairer Future Plan’ would eradicate a sense of community, hurt heritage institutions and businesses, and fail to provide adequate green and park space.  As a result of the community protests, the plan underwent significant amendments, with the most notable being the reduction of 5,000 proposed homes in Marrickville, Dulwich Hill and Ashfield.  Inner West Mayor Darcy Byrne noted that some of those homes would be redistributed to the Parramatta Road corridor, which will accept a total of 8,000 new homes as part of a partnership between the Council and the NSW Government. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons | Bidgee “Our Fairer Future Plan will stop the e