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.