Rob Stokes
Rob Stokes is chair of Faith Housing Alliance. He served as NSW minister for transport, planning, public spaces, cities, infrastructure, transport, education, environment and heritage in his 15-year political career.
Opinion
Public housing
Old churches could be the answer to our prayers for new housing
More than 2500 places of worship in NSW might be able to support social and affordable rental housing for communities in need.
- by Rob Stokes
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Opinion
City life
The CBD is dead. Long live the Central Social District
Sydney’s CBDs will bounce forward from COVID, not back. In any case, the Central Business District is past its use-by date.
- by Rob Stokes
Opinion
Property market
Planning alone will not fix Sydney’s housing affordability crisis
Ideas like shared equity, which could help families overcome that first huge hurdle to ownership without inflating prices, may be the sorts of tools we need to restore the home ownership dream.
- by Rob Stokes