Australian Greens Housing spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said that Labor\u2019s plan doesn\u2019t go nearly far enough to tackle the housing crisis, slash waiting lists and provide universal housing.
\nSenator Faruqi said:
\n\u201cThe scale of the housing crisis requires serious ambition and unprecedented funding. Labor has missed the mark on that front.
\n\u201cAny housing plan that doesn’t dismantle the tax loopholes which inflate prices isn’t worth the paper it’s written on. Labor has failed to renew its commitment to wind back negative gearing and capital gains tax exemptions, forgoing revenue that could be used to build more homes.
\n\u201cWhen it comes to new builds, we need to be talking in the hundreds of thousands of homes – not in the tens of thousands.
\n\u201cThe sector expects that over the next fifteen years, we\u2019ll need more than 700,000 new dwellings. Labor\u2019s commitment is a fraction of what\u2019s required.
\n\u201cThe Greens have committed to building one million homes over the next twenty years to obliterate public housing waiting lists, finally end homelessness, and ensure everyone has a roof over their head.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Australian Greens Housing spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said that Labor\u2019s plan doesn\u2019t go nearly far enough to tackle the housing crisis, slash waiting lists and provide universal housing. Senator Faruqi said: \u201cThe scale of the housing crisis requires serious ambition and unprecedented funding. Labor has missed the mark on that front. \u201cAny housing plan … Continue reading “Labor\u2019s housing plan doesn\u2019t go nearly far enough”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}