Experts say the Greens’ proposal to build 360,000 affordable homes fails to help enough of the nation’s lowest earners,would probably blow out in cost and offers homes to those on high incomes.
A new federal housing department would build 360,000 affordable new homes over five years for people to buy or rent at a net cost of $12.5 billion under the Greens proposal.
The Greens housing spokesman says the empty homes recorded in the census means supply isn’t the cause of the housing crisis. The reality is quite different.
From the Voice to parliament referendum,stabilising relations with China,war in Gaza,the High Court’s curveball on indefinite detention,and a cost of living crisis,it has been a bumper political year.
Months after Lidia Thorpe left the party over her opposition to the Voice,the party is still deeply divided on the referendum.
Not everyone is pleased about Adam Bandt’s decision to finally cut a deal with Labor on housing. Even those within his own party.
Independent MPs Allegra Spender and Andrew Wilkie said Qantas was welcome to revoke their privileges. Greens MP Max Chandler-Mather refused membership.
The Greens will support Labor’s key housing bill after securing an extra $1 billion for social housing,but failing to freeze rents across the country.
They both hail from the Labor left,but Max Chandler-Mather is out to snare ALP votes for the Greens - and the housing crisis is fertile territory.
After doorknocking thousands of households,the Greens MP has a message for Canberra,and it’s one that is increasingly frustrating the federal government as it attempts to pass its $10 billion housing fund.
As the government prepares to reintroduce its $10 billion housing bill unchanged,the Greens’ housing spokesman,Max Chandler-Mather,says he’s ready to negotiate.