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More than three years – and two kids – later, Hussein is still unable to live in the unit he owns. The financial strain led him to close his small business as he was unable to afford its rent. “My wife is on maternity leave, and I’m doing bits and pieces here and there. I don’t have a full-time job, I just work for myself, but it’s not like before. It’s very, very hard,” he said. “We don’t know what’s going to happen.” Sydney’s ‘ghost’ apartments Last week, this masthead reported that Observatory Place, a 24-storey apartment tower in Parramatta, was sitting empty after its now bankrupt developers abandoned it following a prohibition order on the site in 2022. The day after the story was published, workers were seen walking through the site. They declined to speak to the Herald.
