The NSW government has expanded its plans for an old WestConnex site near the city to include 500 new homes. At least 200 will be build-to-rent units, offered at a discount to essential workers in Sydney.
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00:00It's been almost a decade since tunnelling started on West Connex.
00:07The giant holes it left have since been covered up, but at Camperdown it's produced a hectare
00:17of concrete and nothing else.
00:19We're putting our shoulder to the wheel.
00:21That West Connex dive site has been sitting there as an eyesore on Parramatta Road for
00:25years.
00:26When the government identified this site in its land audit last year, it predicted at
00:30least 100 homes could be built by the private sector.
00:34But state-owned developer Landcom now believes it can squeeze in five times as many using
00:39ten-storey buildings.
00:41At least 200 of the units will be built to rent homes and offered at an as-yet undisclosed
00:46discount to essential workers.
00:49Nurses, police officers, firefighters, those that we rely on every single day of the week.
00:55Every week, hundreds and hundreds of essential workers in the inner west either can't find
01:00a home to rent or are moving out of our community.
01:03And that's a tragedy.
01:04As well as the units for essential workers being built here, some will be set aside for
01:09affordable housing.
01:10The government won't say how many though.
01:12But none of the 500 dwellings being planned for this site will be devoted to social housing.
01:18It's going to be a great disappointment to our local community.
01:20There's currently 63,000 people on the housing waiting list in NSW, most of whom are going
01:27to have an expected wait time of more than 10 years for housing.
01:31We're delivering hundreds of homes just over the road in North Everleigh, 50% of which
01:34are social housing.
01:36The government hopes the first residents will be in by 2028.