Federal minister urges Australians to help tackle homelessness ‘in their back yard’

Julie Collins tells thinktank ensuring every Australian has a safe place to call home is not someone else's job'

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Australians will be challenged to stop resisting solutions in their back yard" to the homelessness crisis, as the Albanese government attempts to drive social housing construction.

The housing and homelessness minister, Julie Collins, will make the comments in a speech to the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute on Monday, in which she also accuses the Coalition of a decade of inaction" on homelessness.