Critics question whether a national housing plan will aid affordability or just benefit the rich. Photo: Mick Tsikas/AAP PHOTOS

Cheers have mixed with shouted expletives in a town hall as a plan to usher in thousands of new homes reached its final airing.

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Even the prime minister had caught wind of the fierce debate raging in Ashfield, in Sydney's inner west, over a controversial plan to dramatically scale up housing and increase density in areas characterised by century-old neighbourhoods.

The dispute over the council's plan for up to 30,000 new homes in the once rough-and-ready, n

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