Labor announces $2bn for ‘thousands’ of new social rental homes and passes motion to make housing a human right
by Josh Butler and Benita Kolovos from World news | The Guardian on (#6C8B6)
Prime minister Anthony Albanese also lambasts Greens over Senate stalemate, saying they are happy to promise the world, while organising a petition against every new apartment building'
The federal government has announced it will give $2bn to state and territory governments within weeks for a social housing accelerator fund as part of a last-ditch effort to convince the Greens to not sink Labor's signature housing policy in the Senate.
This is new money - right now - for new social housing," the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, said as he announced the funding at Victorian Labor's state conference on Saturday.
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