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Becoming homeless has meant "Joanne" and her kids have lived in six hotels, two shelters and one caravan park in three years. Her family is part of an increasing number of people struggling to find shelter in Tasmania.

The Cradle Mountain Cableway is in serious doubt after the Commonwealth withdraws $30 million in funding from the project because the Tasmanian government missed a deadline.

The Bob Brown Foundation has lost a court challenge related to a contentious mining waste dam proposal in Tasmania.

Sonia and her carer live in her car, parking in driveways or public car parks. Stuck being homeless is "depressing" she says — and they are not alone, with more and more people desperate for a roof over their heads.

As a person living with multiple sclerosis, Wendy Reid has been warned to avoid stress, but recently she could not escape it. Despite being offered a home after going to the media about the difficulties in finding a place to live in Hobart, the accommodation she has been offered still…

A woman who lives in public housing is left in a state of disbelief after a painter contracted by Homes Tasmania left paint "all over the furniture" and told her she would need to fix the job herself if she was unhappy.

Hobart's outer northern and southern suburbs are experiencing significant demand for social and public housing — far outstripping supply — including hundreds of applications for family-size houses.

Christine Milne argues the glory of restored Tasmanian lake, drowned in 1972, would outweigh benefits of energy it generates

The Tasmanian government says it will build 10,000 affordable houses within the decade, but to reach that target it will need a build rate five times the current speed of construction — meanwhile, Mel just wants an affordable roof over her head.

Tasmania's capital is growing and is predicted to have an extra 60,000 people by 2050. But a new 30-year-plan to deal with them makes a few key assumptions — about Hobart's traffic and public transport and where these people will live.

Venita Brown is unable to leave hospital after recovering from a stroke because the place she and her partner James Paul have been living — an industrial shed in southern Tasmania — has been deemed unsuitable.