- Shelley Jensen has been scouring suburbs throughout Sydney in recent weeks in the hope of finding a home that even partly resembles the three-bedroom house she has been forced to give up.
But real estate agents have “just laughed” when she asked them what the A$960,000 (NZ$1.02 million) the government will pay for compulsorily acquiring her home in the inner-city suburb of St Peters will buy her elsewhere in Sydney.
“It is quite frightening because I don’t know if I will find anything in Sydney – I might be forced to Woop Woop, where I have no connections,” she said.
“The whole thing is quite terrifying. I am used to [St Peters] and I have connections in the area.”
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Shelley Jensen will have to hand over the keys to the home she bought 16 years ago.
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