Greens spokesperson for housing Max Chandler-Mather has today responded to the Housing Minister’s comments on social housing, calling Labor’s plan to build 20,000 afforable homes over 5 years deeply unambitious and inadequate to address Australia’s social housing crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Max Chandler-Mather MP, Greens spokesperson for Housing and Homelessness<\/strong> said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhile it\u2019s good to see the Housing Minister talk about social housing today, Labor\u2019s plan doesn\u2019t even come close to touching the surface of Australia\u2019s massive housing crisis, and in fact under their plan things will only get worse.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThere are 163,500 households sitting on social housing waitlists across Australia and that number grows by 7600 homes a year, which means Labor\u2019s 4000 social homes a year will literally see the waitlist grow every year.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe would never accept 163,500 kids sitting on waitlists to access public schools, so why should we accept that number of people waiting for a home?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOnce you take into account people living in severe housing stress, then the actual need for social and affordable housing is over 600,000 homes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Federal Labor Government plans on spending $224 billion over 10 years on the Stage 3 tax cuts, but only $10 billion on building social and affordable housing, which is a real kick in the teeth for the hundreds of thousands of people in desperate need of a home.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Greens plan would see at least 250,000 public and affordable homes built over 5 years, and 1 million over 20 years, which is exactly what we need to ensure everyone has a place to call home.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201c We have the capacity, money and resources to build enough public housing for everyone who needs one, we just need to break the hold banks and property developers have over our political system.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Greens spokesperson for housing Max Chandler-Mather has today responded to the Housing Minister’s comments on social housing, calling Labor’s plan to build 20,000 afforable homes over 5 years deeply unambitious and inadequate to address Australia’s social housing crisis. Max Chandler-Mather MP, Greens spokesperson for Housing and Homelessness said: \u201cWhile it\u2019s good to see the Housing … Continue reading “Labor\u2019s Social Housing Plan will abandon hundreds of thousands of people to housing stress and homelessness”<\/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-17682","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\/17682","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=17682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17683,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17682\/revisions\/17683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}