Six unfinished townhouses have been torn down in a costly and cruel blow for taxpayers during a housing crisis.
The homes in Hamilton Hill, Perth, were part of state government agency DevelopmentWA’s OneOneFive project, and were being built by Inspired Homes for the open market.
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Inspired went into voluntary administration in April 2025, leaving the properties incomplete and empty for more than a year.
“It was sad. It was almost like having sort of ghost houses over the road,” local Jean McKay told 7NEWS.
“They’ve just been sitting there and so it’s been quite distressing seeing the houses and no further work progressing on them.”
A new builder deemed that they needed to be demolished, with taxpayers now burdened with an even bigger bill in what has become a $5 million mess.
More than $1 million has already been spent on the six townhouses and it is costing another $150,000 to knock them down.
It will cost another $4 million to rebuild, and none are slated for social or affordable housing.
“It’s wasteful, it’s destructive and in the middle of a housing crisis, frankly, it’s…