BREAKING: The Greens have empowered Adam Bandt and Max Chandler-Mather, Federal MP for Griffith to go into negotiations with the Federal Government over their Housing Australia Future Fund bill due to be introduced sometime this year.
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Right now Australians need at least an extra 520,000 public and community homes, and that need increases by 14,000 homes every year. So Labor’s plan to build 6000 public, community and affordable homes a year won’t even match the yearly increase in need, let alone tackle the crisis.
In fact at the end of Labor’s five year plan we will see more people waiting for social housing, more people struggling to pay the rent, and the lowest levels of public and community housing since World War 2.
It’s likely Labor will need the Greens support in the senate to pass their housing plan, so the Greens will seek to negotiate significant improvements to Labor’s plan. We want to see Labor commit to:
1) build 275,000 well designed public, community and affordable homes over the next five years
2) introduce a national 2 year rent freeze as part of new national tenancy standards, and
3) invest $5 billion in maintenance and upgrades for existing public housing, to improve accessibility, energy efficiency, and ensure better heating and cooling
We are fighting for the millions of people being left behind, struggling to pay the rent or buy a house, stuck on waitlists, or homeless.
Despite what the classically inflammatory Australian headline says, the Greens are ready to negotiate in good faith to get the public, community and affordable housing Australia desperately needs, and some real, meaningful national protections for renters.
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