Abstract
Housing processes and products provide an invaluable contribution to understanding the city. The form, location and condition of its dwellings are a key feature of Sydney, reflecting its historical development, household and social structure, economic conditions and response to climate. 
 Four aspects of Sydney’s housing - type, tenure, cost and location - provide indispensable insights into the city’s social makeup, its economic foundations and cultural identity. Unfortunately, as in most large cities around the world, a proportion of Sydney’s residents are unable to secure housing of any kind.
Highlights
Greek culture did not begin with the Parthenon, it began with a white-washed hut on a hillside.[1]
Housing is not houses – it is the process by which houses come to be built and occupied, and it is one of the most important processes that form a city
A little later, housing was made of brick and of Sydney’s famous sandstone
Summary
Greek culture did not begin with the Parthenon, it began with a white-washed hut on a hillside.[1]. The Sydney region has provided homes for people for many thousands of years, from the more or less temporary shelters of its indigenous residents, through early colonial wattle-and-daub huts to Georgian cottages, squalid row housing, Victorian terraces, Edwardian and Californian bungalows, shacks, shanty towns, serviced apartments, flats and weatherboard and fibro cottages, caravan parks and most recently to Mac Mansions to the high rise steel and glass towers of the twenty-first century.[2] But housing is not houses – it is the process by which houses come to be built and occupied, and it is one of the most important processes that form a city. Both natural and social, mediated the various imported European tastes and desires for a home in early Sydney. Some of the destitute were accommodated in places such as the New South Wales Benevolent Society asylum built with government funding at the corner of Devonshire and Pitt Streets in 1821
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