🎉 Huge thanks to the many volunteers who spent their weekend knocking on thousands of doors, chatting to the community about Labor’s housing plan and how the Greens should work to fix it. Labor’s dodgy housing bill needs our support to get through Parliament – so this is our chance to make it better with your feedback and ideas 🎉
More from Max Chandler-Mather, Federal MP for Griffith 👇
Yesterday, hundreds of volunteers across the country came together to fight for urgently needed action on the housing crisis. These snaps are from some of the groups across the country out doorknocking or at stalls, speaking with community members about Labor’s housing plan, which in its current form will make the crisis worse.
Over the course of the weekend we collectively spoke with more than a thousand people around the country and asked for their feedback on whether the Greens should a) refuse to pass the plan until Labor agree to substantial changes or b) waive the plan through without any changes.
Right now Labor’s plan involves gambling $10 billion on the stock market and only investing some of the returns on housing (last year the gamble would have lost $120 million). The vast majority of people we spoke to rejected Labor’s plan and instead agreed with the Greens call to invest directly in building enough public and affordable housing to tackle the scale of the crisis.
Labor needs the Greens support to pass their housing plan through parliament. The problem is that right now their plan will make the housing crisis worse, and this could be our one opportunity to secure real action in this term of government.
In exchange for our support we have put four key things on the table, and have told Labor we are ready and keen to negotiate in good faith:
✅ Guarantee at least $5 billion of investment directly in public, community and affordable housing every year – that could build 225,000 homes
✅ A national freeze on rent increases and doubling rent assistance for 1.5 million renters
✅ Minimum design standards for all social and affordable homes
✅$1 billion for First Nations housing
Instead of working with us, right now Labor is trying to ram their dodgy plan through parliament.
The feedback from over 80% of the conversations we had across the country was crystal clear: The Greens should not support Labor’s plan that does nothing for renters, and will make the crisis worse, until Labor is willing to make substantial changes that include direct investment in more public housing and a national plan for renters.
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