Another Northern Rivers council declares housing 'emergency'

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At Thursday night’s meeting councillors voted unanimously in favour of declaring the local government area was experiencing an extreme situation with respect to lack of housing availability and affordability in our community.
Mayor Chris Cherry brought forward the motion, citing a previous study which showed the Tweed Shire to be the eighth least affordable place for youth to live in the world and further studies showing 35 per cent of the community lived on low to very low income.
“I’ve got people coming to us talking about how they’re middle income families and can’t afford to live in our shire,” Cr Cherry said.

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