Economy
A Fight to Preserve Sydney's Public Housing
Nearly 300 government-owned residences have been slated for sale as part of a wider dismantlement of the city’s public housing network.
Overlooking the Opera House and Harbour Bridge, there’s a lesser-known Sydney icon facing extinction. The lights are slowly being turned out in Sirius, a Brutalist building that has provided 79 public housing units since it was completed in 1980.
Refused heritage status by the state government, despite unanimous Heritage Council recommendation, the building has become the center of a much larger fight over the future of the city. Sirius, and 293 other government owned residences, have been slated for sale as part of the wider dismantlement of the bulk of the city’s public housing network.