Blog by We Live Here

22.05 Sex parties on short-stay platforms

01 May 2022 02:06 AM By We Live Here - Comment(s)

VCAT is about to be exposed to sordid details of drug and alcohol-fuelled sex parties and strippers enriching a short-stay operator in a Melbourne apartment complex.

22.04 Party policy time

01 Apr 2022 02:05 AM By We Live Here - Comment(s)

With the fragrance of a federal election in the air, we have a sniff of party policies at a national level on short-stays.

22.03 Fighting an unfair committee

01 Mar 2022 02:04 AM By We Live Here - Comment(s)

An update on the committee scandal at an inner-city building

22.02 Learning from others

01 Feb 2022 02:04 AM By We Live Here - Comment(s)

Around the world, cities are all regulating short stays, sometimes with eye-watering penalties greater than the property value of the apartment involved.

2021.12 Owners Corporation laws tweaked

01 Dec 2021 02:02 AM By We Live Here - Comment(s)

The Victorian Government’s long-awaited amendments to owners corporation laws are now coming into force.

The government has been under pressure for some time to stamp out a number of inequitable practices indulged in by many developers for several years.

With around one in five Victorians being part...

21.11 Will short-stay infections force us into lockdown again?

01 Nov 2021 01:54 AM By We Live Here - Comment(s)

With retail industry still shuttered, it beggars belief that short stay operators are allowed to endanger residential buildings with potential COVID carriers.

21.10 High-rise truck saga

01 Oct 2021 01:53 AM By We Live Here - Comment(s)

Our inner-city champion whom we have lauded in this column has written in with a poignant precis of her tribulations. The outcome was ultimately a resident's victory over a cohort of developers, managers and local government officials.