Julie Collins (Franklin, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Small Business) Share this | Hansard source

Since we came to office we immediately unlocked up to $575 million from the National Housing Infrastructure Facility, and indeed we already have homes being built across the country today because we unlocked that funding. In our first budget in October we announced the National Housing Accord, a commitment to build a further 20,000 affordable rentals with the states for key workers right across the country. With our expanded home guarantee, we've helped more than 50,000 Australians into homeownership since we came to office—50,000 in our first year. That includes 6,000 in regional Australia through the Regional First Home Buyer Guarantee that we brought forward by three months. Of course, in the budget we announced Commonwealth rent assistance would get a 15 per cent increase, the largest increase in more than 30 years; our build-to-rent changes; our depreciation changes that will add more than 150,000 new dwellings—

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